Data Portrait Study Series I: Social Maps of Time and Space Orkan Telhan Sociable Media Group MIT Media Lab

This series of sketches is an initial foray looking at how we can create insightful portraits of people using data about them. In these sketches we visualize information patterns created during mobile conversations. These portraits map the history of social relations over time, telling us more on how we can abstract a sense of visual memory from the rhythms of everyday data that we produce through our use of sociable media.

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Data Portrait Study Series II: Sensing People in Time . . .

We study different methods to depict the ways people are spending their time in their lived environments. We look at people's relationships with each other in physical space through a variety of visualization techniques. By combining different sources of data from sensors, mobile phone logs and other social media, we build rich and meaningful histories from the less recognizable details of our lives to understand more on how our identities are shaped in time.