Creating meaning from “the abundance of data produced in the precise but distant language of machines”.

Tom Carden from Stamen Design and Aaron Cope from Flickr talk about massive machine generated datasets in general, and the Flickr Alpha Shapes project in particular. Reverse geocoding the geotag of user contributed photos to Flickr they created the Alpha Shapes. Representations of psychogeographic space.

Recorded at the 2009 WhereCamp