Obama | One people is an unprecedented analysis of Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day on January 20, 2009.
In partnership with AT&T Labs, this work created visualizations of mobile phone call activity that characterize the inaugural crowd and address the questions: Who was in Washington, D.C. for President Obama’s Inauguration Day? When did they arrive, where did they go, and how long did they stay? The results of our advanced data analyses are presented in two dazzling visualizations that celebrate Barack Obama and the people that paid him homage from all over the United States and the world.
Obama | One People features two high-resolution 3D graphic visualizations of mobile phone call activity during Inauguration Day.“The City” shows a 3-D color-coded animated surface superimposed on a map of Washington. One can see peaks in call activity as the crowd anticipates Obama’s oath, a drop in call activity as the crowd listens to Obama’s inaugural address, and another set of peaks as the crowd celebrates the inauguration of the new President. Another visualization, “The World”, depicts flows of people traveling to Washington and then departing the capital to return home.