Deluge

By Barry Ritholtz - February 8th, 2012, 6:50AM

300.000 Norwegians move house every year. If the pattern made by their journeys could be compressed into one short animation, what would it look like? What would someone seeing it be able to learn, if anything?

Deluge from even westvang on Vimeo.

Deluge is a C++ application designed to answer these questions. The underlying data was generated by cross referencing 8 million tax records from 2006 and 2007 to track changes in postal codes.

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One Response to “Deluge”

zdog Says:
February 12th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Good example of style over substance. The animations of individual events don’t provide any real value and the panning around makes what little value there is, even less useful.

Simply aggregating the data and creating heatmaps for given time periods would likely answer whatever question they were asking. Did they even ask a question?