# Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2011
- Speaker: Aaron Koblin
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin_visualizing_ourselves_with_crowd_sourced_data)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the "Wilderness Downtown" video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.

## Lectures

1. [Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/aaron_koblin_visualizing_ourselves_with_crowd_sourced_data/e58172b29f83), 18 min (TED's player)