Obama Inauguration: Check Out These Real-Time Visualizations

The MIT SENSEable City Lab recently released visualizations of mobile phone call activity over the week of President Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009. The visualizations are of course stunning, but they also aim to answer 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? MIT says that the objective of these visualizations was to determine how a city performs during a special event or a sudden emergency.

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