Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data

The video explores the intersection of data, storytelling, and interfaces, highlighting projects that visualize data in innovative ways. It covers the Flight Patterns project, which visualizes airplane traffic, and projects with the Sensible Cities Lab that visualize international communications and SMS data. The video also delves into creative projects using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, such as TheSheepMarket and TenThousandsCents. Finally, it discusses collaborative music video projects with Chris Milk, including a tribute to Johnny Cash and an interactive experience with Arcade Fire.

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