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🚌 Summer holidays are slowing the cadence of my weekly transit #dataviz posts but this one from the locker is a nice example of how innovation in visual design can help reveal patterns.

🚏 The visual uses clustering and rigid body dynamics to showcase the patterns of people entering and exiting a bus at a specific stop over 24 hours. When a delta occurs a number of spheres are deposited from that stop proportional to the volume of people entering/exiting with colour being utilised to highlight high/low volumes.

⚗ The cumulative effect of spheres being deposited pushes previous ones out to create zones, these zones help identify where clusters of people utilise the network. The concept does get tricky around inner city regions where zones merge but the pattern of occupancy on the periphery of a city is useful for identifying commuter zones/school drops offs etc.

💡 I like this concept as an overview visual, it highlights patterns quickly but in order to be more accurate the spheres would need to be smaller to create distinguishable zones in inner city regions. Or, I guess, 3d pillars could show this data - but it's less fun!