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It's visible every evening at Cronkite Plaza, with scenes projected onto
the building via six different projectors. The majority of the projected
text is sourced from Walter Cronkite's news broadcasts, but they also
used local closed-captioned news sources. One scene extracted the
questions asked during local news—things like “How did she react?”
or “What type of dog would you get?”
eBay Transactions and Books
Again working jointly with Jer Thorp, Mark investigated a day's worth
of eBay's transactions that went through Paypal and, for whatever rea‐
son, two years of topic sales. How do you visualize this? Take a look at
their data art-visualization-installation commissioned by eBay for the
2012 ZERO1 Biennial in
Figure 9-10
and at the yummy underlying
data in
Figure 9-11
.
Figure 9-10. Before Us is the Salesman's House (2012), by Jer Thorp
and Mark Hansen
