Interesting article presented at CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives (Paris, France) in April 2013  by Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) and David A. Shamma (Yahoo! Research) with the title Spinning Data: Remixing Live Data Like a Music DJ. The conference paper presents a demonstration on data visualization as a performance through the use of disc jockey (DJs) mixing boards.

The authors assert that the tools DJs use in-situ can deeply inform the creation of data mixing interfaces and performances. Indeed authors present a prototype system, DMix, which allows one to lter and summarize information from social streams using a audio mixing deck. It enables the Data DJ to distill multiple feeds of information in order to give an overview of a live event.

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