GOOD Magazine Nation Rebuilding
Catalogtree were commissioned to create an infographics about the US's nation rebuilding activities. For this, a huge set of data has to be processed. Systemantics assisted in creating the graphics from the data with a really small Processing script. (March 2008)
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Concept & design: Catalogtree / Commissioned by: Catalogtree
DNA Card
Catalogtree developed the design of a personal DNA card, which was published in SEED Magazine, New York. The card is formed like a credit card and features a serpentine line which is built from 13 core loci. Systemantics developed the software to generate the line from core loci data based on catalogtree's design. (February 2008)
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Concept & design: Catalogtree / Commissioned by: Catalogtree
Grand Vision
The city of New York has a big strategic plan for the future which is called PLANYC. The PLANYC consists of 157 pages and is available on the internet as a PDF document. Catalogtree was commissioned to visualize the contents of the plan in an infographic for the Metropolis Magazine. Therefore, they commissioned Systemantics to analyze the plan's contents in a way that is sufficient as statistical basis for an infographic. The analysis was based on the assumption that nouns form the backbone of a text. It is easy to split a text up into words, but to get the nouns out of it, one has to tell apart nouns from other words. Systemantics developed the analysis based on the nouns known to the lexical database WordNet. To deal with even the flexed forms of the nouns as they appear in a natural text, basic morphological algorithms similar to them of Morphy were applied. The result from the analysis was the number of occurences of each noun, one data set for every chapter of the whole PLANYC. This data was delivered to Catalogtree for further processing. (July 2007)
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Concept & design: Catalogtree / Commissioned by: Catalogtree
Talkshow 2007-03-09, poster
Systemantics developed a Java application that recorded main phrases from a talkshow together with the time when they were mentioned. To allow Catalogtree to create a poster visualizing and summarizing the discussion, Systemantics analyzed the data recorded at the talkshow by the number of occurrences of each phrase. The poster shows the most used phrases during the discussion. Around every phrase, a number of circles is drawn. The more circles there are, the more often the particular phrase was mentioned. (June 2007)
Concept & design: Catalogtree / Commissioned by: Catalogtree
Talkshow 2007-03-09, visualization
On 2007-03-09, <>TAG in The Hague, Netherlands, presented a talkshow-like debate of two graphic designers, one artist, and one philosopher about data visualization. There was the wish by <>TAG to show a visualization of the discussion flow on a big screen in the background. Catalogtree and Systemantics developed the concept of the visualization in close collaboration. The idea was to show the main phrases from the discussion on the screen and surround it by circles. Every ten seconds, a circle disappears. When all circles are gone, the phrase itself disappears. The only chance to keep the phrase alive is to mention it a second time. In this case, it turns from white to yellow and gets a new time limit represented by a new amount of circles around it. Systemantics developed a Java application which made use of the Processing library. The application was displayed on two screens: On one screen, a typist could record the main phrases during the discussion. On the other screen, the visualization itself was shown, following the design from Catalogtree. The visualization was recorded and later converted to a movie. The movie was shown in an endless repetition during the Generation Random exhibition to the honor of 10 years of the work of LUST, The Hague at <>TAG. (March 2007)
Concept & design: Catalogtree / Commissioned by: Catalogtree