ABOUT
Data Walking is a research project exploring the potential of walking to gather environmental data and through multiple walks and visualisations build a rich picture of that area. The project examines technology and tools for creative data gathering and experimenting with data visualisation, to create tools, gain insight, and share knowledge.
The project has been through a series of distinct inital phases and resulted in a number of international workshops and presentations at events and conferences. There have been a variety of outcomes from data sculptures to printed publications. The North Greenwich phase resulted in a 96 page report featuring the visualisations of renowned designers, studios, educators and students, as well as practical advice on beginning your own walks or workshops, and tools to try out.
All printed copies of the report have been given away, but a PDF is available to download now.
MAP
The book has been sent to over 100 cities in 25 countries across all the continents of the world except Antarctica. People who have requested the book include academics, students, designers, programmers, data scientists, journalists, planning & civi authority workers, artists.
DATA
Much of the data and photographs gathered are shared freely on github at:
github.com/DHDPIC/DATA_WALKING
Please use the data to create visualisations, maps, artistic responses, and even tools for the making of more creative outcomes using data. Let us know what you come up with!
TOOLS
I have just released three Data Walking Apps for data gathering on your mobile phone. There are three different apps for different data types and input methods. I hope to improve and expand upon these three apps. It is worth mentioning that none of the data gathered is stored or sent to me or the project, all the data is generated and stored in the frontend, no servers are involved.
Also on this website is a generic Data Walking workshop brief that anyone can use for a one day or two day (or more) workshop with a group of people. Briefs based on this have worked with groups from 6 to 60 participants in number.
Alternatively, I have made a generator tool to help create ideas for gathering and visualising data from a walk.
There is also a list of online resources outside of the project.
Data Walking is a research project by David Hunter