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IBM Puts On A Big Data Viz Show, Streaming Real-Time Data About NYC 

But it was still surprising to wander down Broadway late last week and find a 123 x 12 foot digital wall sloping down below street level displaying what looked like a bathtub’s worth of blue LED bubbles draining into the parking garage.

That’s but one image that sparkles across this massive screen, mounted in conjunction with an exhibit celebrating IBM’s 100th anniversary, which visualizes, in real time, the live data streaming from the systems surrounding the exhibit, from traffic on Broadway, to solar energy, to credit card fraud, to air quality—to the amount of water that is systematically leaking from New York’s aqueduct system.

(via Co. Design)

Source: fastcodesign.com

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