The New York Times reports on Immersion, an MIT Media Laboratory project that mines a consenting user’s e-mail metadata and creates an interactive graphic. “The result is a creepy spider web showing all the people you’ve corresponded with, how they know each other and who your closest friends and professional partners are,” the report states. Meanwhile, a German politician who sued a telecommunications company for his phone data over a six-month span has, in conjunction with ZEIT ONLINE, created a mapped visual of his day-to-day life. By combining Green Party Politician Malte Spitz’s phone data, which includes location information, with publicly available data—including information relating to his political life, Twitter feeds and blog entries—a robust and detailed interactive portrait emerges of Spitz’s personal movements. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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