The Amsterdam #data Project #01
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The making of “Counting to a Million”Counting to a Million is a public data sculpture tracking and predicting 50 years of Amsterdam population growth. Exploring births, deaths and changes in each suburb’s population count as the city heads towards a million residents. The sculpture blurs the lines between suburbs, crosses boundaries, and merges together in a constant push and pull, ebb and flow, as life happens, people move, die, get married and new residents arrive and are born.I’ve always been fascinated with big public data, as an input and source to create artworks, so was super excited to be able to create Amsterdam Data Project, part of a year long exploration into the wonderful world of open data in Amsterdam.The following is an account of how I would go about building a large-scale (...)