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HOI: The Big Atlas of LA Pools
1. THE BIG ATLAS OF LA
POOLS
JOSEPH LEE
A part of the Hands-On Ideas series
2013.10.16
2. About us
• Benedikt Groβ
• From: Germany
• M.A: Royal College of Art, London
• Interaction & Speculative Design
• Joseph Lee:
• From: USA
• B.A: UCLA
• Geography/Cartography &
Environmental Science
We met at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Summer ‘12
7. THE BIG ATLAS OF LA
POOLS
A process-based exploration of new tools and
emerging issues in data privacy
8. About the project
• Overview:
• Start with ~17gb of aerial
imagery of LA
NA I P O r t h o i ma ge r y
L os A ngeles
( a e ri al i ma ge r y ti les )
Po o l - S ha p e Tra c i ng
by C l ipp i ng fa c to r y. co m
( Crowd S o u rc i ng )
Co rre c tio n M a rks
by Jos e p h & B ene dikt
( E x p e r t Revi ew )
• Computer vision not suitable
for task
H i gh - Res C h e ck
by A ma z o n M e cha n i cal Tu rk
( Crowd S o u rc i ng )
H i ts Res u l t A
H i ts Res u l t B
• “Crowdsourcing”
Do b o t h A ma z o n M e cha n i cal Tu rk
wo rke rs a g re e ( Yes / No ) ?
• Data Enrichment
• Books, Posters, and “The LA
Swimmer”
C h e ck o f co ntrove rs i al o n es
by Jo ey & B e n e d i kt
( E x p e r t Revi ew )
Fi nal Da tas e t
S a tell i te & Ae ri al I ma ge r y
B i ng M a ps
36. What we learned
• There are a lot of
data that are freely
available – and
even more that
isn’t.
• There are a lot of
open-source tools
that can be
leveraged to do
complex/weird
tasks.
• What might data mining look like at an
institutional or governmental level?
37. How you can build off our work
• (Ab)use the available tools
• Ask questions relevant to your own community or
social-physical landscape
• Think spatially – how are things related in space
and time.
• Find ways of collecting your own data
