Rafael Rozendaal, Abstract Browsing at Steve Turner Los Angeles (January 9 - February 6, 2016) via It's Nice That
"History of the Sky aims to convey the rhythms of the weather, the lengthening and shortening of days, and other atmospheric events on an immediate level. By recording the sky above the Exploratorium, a museum located at the edge of San Francisco Bay, programmer slash artists Ken Murphy has captured the clouds, fog, wind, and rain to form a rich visual texture, as sunrises and sunsets cascade across the screen. The 6-minute movie is based on a huge collection of images, which were captured at a 10 seconds interval. The visualization consists of a grid of 360 (so almost 365) unique movies, each representing one day of the year, organized chronologically, and cycling in parallel through a single 24-hour period." (via Information Aesthetics)
Connected States of America
The Connected States of America, from MIT's senseable city lab, "illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data." As these project visualizations make clear, "administrative boundaries are often at odds if one compares these to a bottom up approach calculating the regional delineation only based on how people interact":