ProjectEmotoClientLondon 2012 OlympicsIndustrySports

Capturing and visu­al­izing the global response to the London 2012 Olympic Games


The Challenge

How can significant public events and their accompanying worldwide emotions be captured and made tangible and traceable at the same time


The Result

An inter­active online real-time visu­al­isa­tion and phys­ical data sculpture that made the emotions around the event tangible

Our Expertise
  • Ideation
  • Data Analysis & Visualization
  • Engineering
  • Interaction Design
  • UX & UI Design

The Brief

How can we visualize the accompanying emotions of large events and make them traceable and tangible simultaneously?

Reception of the opening ceremony in the UK

Our Approach

For the Cultural Olympiad of the 2012 London Olympic Games, Studio NAND created emoto, a dual-part project consisting of both an online visualization and a physical installation that captured the collective response to the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Millions of Tweets concerning the Olympics were gathered to determine the collective sentiment on individual topics such as events, players, and teams.

Real-Time Online Visualization

In the online visu­al­iza­tion, we have created two different perspect­ives onto the data. Using a combin­a­tion of two inter­active views, users were able to explore the ebbs and flows of discus­sions online.

Landing page of the online visualization

The Topics View, focused on commu­nic­ating how much positive or negative atten­tion each event, athlete or social topic was gener­ating at each moment and over time.

The anec­dotal and ephem­eral was seen in the Message Stream View which showed Tweets in real-time as they were posted around the world.

Physical Installation

The information collected in the online component created an extensive profile of the games which was documented in an interactive installation at the WE PLAY closing exhib­i­tion.

Visitors could navigate a generative physical sculpture representing all responses over time with overlayed information from posted Tweets.

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