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URBAN DATA
EXPLORATION
CONTEXT
The MIX Center is part of the ASU at Mesa City Center complex, a collaboration between ASU and Mesa, Arizona, a city rich in history, art, community and industry. The MIX Center is located in the Salt River Valley on the ancestral homelands of those American Indian tribes that have inhabited this place for centuries, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) peoples, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. (For more information please see ASU Commitment to American Indian Tribes.) Located in the heart of Mesa’s Innovation District, the site will serve as a laboratory for advanced media technologies, a platform for game development and a driving force for entrepreneurial solutions. It will also be an open and inviting place for the public as well as a source of inspiration, entertainment and education.
PROJECT BRIEF
This urban data explorations research project is meant to create synergies between academia, art, technology, and the community of Mesa. Community is a crucial part of the downtown Mesa corridor; this project will aim to lay the foundation to enable collaborations between artists (you) and the city to yield a positive geo-cultural impact. Your project will contribute to the community, visualizing data, and make transparent elements of the community and city that invite discussion and raise awareness in regards to the data and communities that relate to the City of Mesa.
The MIX Center is part of the ASU at Mesa City Center complex, a collaboration between ASU and Mesa, Arizona, a city rich in history, art, community and industry. The MIX Center is located in the Salt River Valley on the ancestral homelands of those American Indian tribes that have inhabited this place for centuries, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) peoples, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. (For more information please see ASU Commitment to American Indian Tribes.) Located in the heart of Mesa’s Innovation District, the site will serve as a laboratory for advanced media technologies, a platform for game development and a driving force for entrepreneurial solutions. It will also be an open and inviting place for the public as well as a source of inspiration, entertainment and education.
Author: Jiaqi Li
Professor: Ana Herruzo
Through this data visualization project, we tried to display some data related to climate change in a more intuitive and vivid way. This not only frees the viewer from repetitive and tedious data presentations of pie and line graphs but also brings the general public to a more relevant level of understanding of climate change in their personal life. In addition, such data display effects can also serve as a reference for decision-makers in companies and urban planning.
The transportation mode data we used in this exhibition came from the Mesa area. Such an intuitive display effect enables bike-sharing companies concerned with the market in this region to configure their equipment better. It can also allow government departments to construct more efficiently when planning infrastructures such as bus stations and electric vehicle charging piles.
The purpose of this design is to allow everyone to extract meaningful information from similar climate change-related data visualization projects. Through the use of 3D modeling software such as Blender, we can convert map models into editable 3D models and import them into a data visualization program like TouchDesigner to explore visualization effects.
We obtained data related to climate change through the U.S. Census website from Mesa, a city very close to us because we wanted our stakeholders to see how close the subject was to their lives. The type of data we chose was related to transportation because we think that is one of the data types that are very suitable for visualization.
Author: Henry Beach
Professor: Ana Herruzo