[rel]

Visualizations like these are incredible and I want to see more like them. We're at a time where data wealth and transparency is becoming more and more sought out and computers/microcontrollers are incredibly cheap.

An installation like this one would be thought provoking in an art gallery or event space, especially if it's pulling raw data. The silence, or even onslaught of noise, would be deafening. Presentations like these give a much more tangible understanding than points on a graph.

[thekeg1108]

If art installations of this type became more commonplace we could begin to see dissenters manipulating them to make counterpoints. I'm sure someone with a favorable opinion of the drone program is already working towards a method to exploit this piece.

[rel]

I think an answer to this is raw data. Data is data and you can of course massage the information to do what you want[1] and it can also be argued that it's been misinterpreted and improperly reported since the beginning of time. The truth is that the only "true" judgement that can be made is by the person who reads and interprets the raw data. If we make more "actualizations" like this where it takes a raw information stream and leaves it to the viewer to interpret, it will become less exploitable.

Akin to a thermometer, there are reporters and newscasters who can tell you the weather outside and we hope they are not deceitful but if you look at a thermometer, you have the raw data and you can make that judgement yourself.

[1]http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/lie-factor.php

[bjelkeman-again]

Nothing really new in this. The people who have access to the data today misrepresent it already. Or fail to publish it, or collect it, to avoid arguments against their actions.

Example, insufficient data is collected about people killed by the police in the U.S.: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/18/police-killin...