InnovationLandscape
From MashupCamp
Competition 1: Innovation Landscape
The first competition, "Innovation Landscape", is an exercise in creative information visualization. Using data on economic performance from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's 2005 Index of the Massachusetts Innovation Economy participants will create interactive 3D landscapes, point clouds, bubble maps, or diagrams of the Boston metro area in GoogleEarth, Virtual Earth, or ArcGIS Explorer.
Entries should demonstrate their ideas in three ways:
- Visualizing the Innovation Landscape: Representing areas of high and low innovation in terms of peaks and troughs, areas of different size, color, shape, intensity, etc.
- Showing change over time: Animating changes in these values over time.
- Identifying key trends and exceptions: Means of highlighting or selecting areas of fast or slow innovation, exceptional companies or communities, etc., with a way to investigate further via web links, embedded information, etc.
FutureBOSTON will provide all competitors with common data in specialized layers from a Web server in the form of georeferenced point and polygon layers with associated attributes, as well as geocoded text databases. This information should be visualized against standard backdrops of maps and photos in Google Earth, Virtual Earth and other mapping environments, as well as other Web sources.
For overall information about the FutureBOSTON competitions at MashupCamp, be sure to check out the Competition Announcement and Rules.
For information on the second of the two competitions, see the wiki page on the Science City Model Maker competition.
