The last time I posted, I was considering focusing on mapping for a long-term project, specifically trying to relate it to my personal life. Bennett gave me the email of someone at Eyebeam who specializes in that kind of thing, so I’m gonna talk to him about how I might go about tracking my day activity.
In the meantime, I’ve got a couple of somewhat less ambitious personal maps I’d like to try out:
- mapping my itunes library. I’d like to tag the countries where the music I listen to is from, export the info to an xml file, and make a world (or US) map of my musical tastes.
- visualizing my friendships. this wouldn’t be a literal map, but a graph of everybody i’ve been friends with or in relationships with since i was born.
in other news, i’m going to be doing a weekly series of maps for gothamist on nyc stuff, so i’ll definitely be hitting you guys us for ideas and critique. My first post, on density and subway service in brooklyn and queens, should be going up today.
at one point, I attempted to undertake a similar mapping of relationships thing–specifically using graphical methods of representing the “strength” of a bond
Edward Tufte definitely throws down some sick words on “beautiful” representation of data, well worth a read (any of his books)