What Is The Social Weather Project?

It is a study of macro human behaviour, using just two sets of data. 1) economic data including income and 2) location. This fundraiser has been set up to establish whether there would be enough volunteers willing to add their anonymised data to the datasets. In the data collection, backroom administrators and researchers will not be able to access name and address details of volunteers. Volunteers would have to manually update their salary details at least once a year and location data would move directly from their phone and onto the app on their phones and then into the data sets.

Tens of thousands of people would have to take part to make the system work. There would be two vectors. One would be location which would be in the horizontal plane and the other would be salary converted into USD and then converted again into altitude, using one dollar to a pixel. So someone entering $25,000 yearly income, would be 25,000 pixels up within the 3D model. The 3D model would then be fed into a live animation on a website, where users can type in their user number and locate themselves on the map.

If you think you would be willing to contribute your data, then please donate/join the group and keep in touch with us. There is no app at this stage, but one is in development.

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