@tekjadata

Tekja is a data visualisation studio. We work with organisations to reveal the trends hidden in data. We love innovation and doing good with data.

 Somerset House Studios, London
tekja.com/
Joined April 2014
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We got hands on with sonification at the official launch of Hakuryu today! If you can't see it live at LPS, worry not. You can immerse yourself in EarthCARE's cloud-dragon song of peace via the link below 😉 youtu.be/6VsrIXwVg3Q?si=WBWR…
ESA's EarthCARE mission
@esa_earthcare19 Jun 2025
A dragon made of clouds is singing to Earth! 🐉🎶 What if satellite cloud data could become music? Meet Hakuryu — a dragon born as the European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite, singing a song of peace for our planet. JAXA called EarthCARE Hakuryu, which is Japanese for White Dragon. Hakuryu now lends its name to the title of a groundbreaking immersive installation that creates an audiovisual story from EarthCARE cloud and aerosol data in a way that has never been seen or heard before. Through data sonification, Hakuryu transforms over thirty types of data into immersive soundscapes and music. Clouds become choirs as Hakuryu sings to Earth, with voices from notable public, scientific and ESA figures joined by those needing care most - people from the frontline of climate change, displacement and conflict. Adding to this, data from atmospheric elements such as rain, snow, dust and smoke are rendered as rich environmental sonic textures. Simultaneously the same data is transformed into clouds, creating a vibrant trail behind an animated white dragon. Viewers slowly fly with Hakuryu, in a beautiful representation of Earth as it moves from day into night on its journey around the sun. Tune in next week via the link below (and now for the full resolution trailer!), to see the feature-length film that will be played live at ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Vienna between 23-27 June 2025 as an immersive installation throughout the week. If you're there, pop by Foyer E, room 0.51 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=6VsrIXwV…
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A dragon made of clouds is singing to Earth! 🐉🎶 What if satellite cloud data could become music? Meet Hakuryu — a dragon born as the European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite, singing a song of peace for our planet. JAXA called EarthCARE Hakuryu, which is Japanese for White Dragon. Hakuryu now lends its name to the title of a groundbreaking immersive installation that creates an audiovisual story from EarthCARE cloud and aerosol data in a way that has never been seen or heard before. Through data sonification, Hakuryu transforms over thirty types of data into immersive soundscapes and music. Clouds become choirs as Hakuryu sings to Earth, with voices from notable public, scientific and ESA figures joined by those needing care most - people from the frontline of climate change, displacement and conflict. Adding to this, data from atmospheric elements such as rain, snow, dust and smoke are rendered as rich environmental sonic textures. Simultaneously the same data is transformed into clouds, creating a vibrant trail behind an animated white dragon. Viewers slowly fly with Hakuryu, in a beautiful representation of Earth as it moves from day into night on its journey around the sun. Tune in next week via the link below (and now for the full resolution trailer!), to see the feature-length film that will be played live at ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Vienna between 23-27 June 2025 as an immersive installation throughout the week. If you're there, pop by Foyer E, room 0.51 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=6VsrIXwV…
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Rising global temperatures are harming our health on a large scale. For some people and places, these impacts have been far more severe – and it’s getting worse.
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Data is a powerful tool for understanding the health effects of climate change. That’s why we’ve mapped 120 years of climate data in our new climate and health tracker ⤵️ [1/5]
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We hope for more trees like these, and more real trees to regain the planet #lumierehopes
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Thank you @VCDBusiness for supporting Tree of Hope by @tekjadata, the first #LumiereDurham artwork to exist online. It's a digital tree which grows before your eyes as hopes are collected. Explore the tree at lumiere-treeofhope.com or submit your hopes at #LumiereHopes
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📣 The first-ever digital #LumiereDurham artwork! Created by @tekjadata and supported by @VCDBusiness. Tree of Hope will invite individuals worldwide to contribute their hopes for the future. 🌍 #LumiereHopes @ThisisDurham Read more: bit.ly/3uDVqeI
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We’re so excited to launch our Impact Hub today, created in collaboration with @tekjadata. You can use our interactive map to explore data from our different programmes over the last 10 years, by region and constituency. Find it here: buff.ly/31CeooG
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Creative routine in the studio.
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Tekja retweeted
Kaggle
@kaggle16 Mar 2020
We just launched a challenge focused on open #COVID19 research questions, including a dataset of thousands of relevant papers to help: kaggle.com/allen-institute-f… Thanks @WHOSTP @allen_ai @NIH @Microsoft @Georgetown @ChanZuckerberg for the rapid collaboration on data.

COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)

An AI challenge with AI2, CZI, MSR, Georgetown, NIH & The White House

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the clock is ticking and time is nearly up for you to see 24/7 #247Exhibition @SomersetHouse londonist.com/things-to-do-i…

Things to do in London This Week

See what's on in London today.

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This is huge. The creator of the YOLO algorithms, which (along with SSD) set much of the path of modern object detection, has stopped doing any computer vision research due to ethical concerns. I've never seen anything quite like this before.
Joseph Redmon@pjreddie20 Feb 2020
Replying to @pjreddie
I stopped doing CV research because I saw the impact my work was having. I loved the work but the military applications and privacy concerns eventually became impossible to ignore. xitter.cf/RogerGrosse/status/123…
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Japanese newspaper uses Augmented Reality to show animated charts. Great fun working on this.  ht @page_eco
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Top five this week | @Tate Modern will launch a year-long exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama this spring which includes one of her most famous infinity room immersive mirror works ow.ly/XUp350ymL0o
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You only have one week left to catch our #247exhibition. Featuring an array of immersive experiences, the exhibition brings together over 50 artworks from artists examining today's non-stop world ⌚️⁠ See it before it closes on Sun 23 Feb.⁠ ⁠ ➡️ bit.ly/247exhibition
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👀 See the new @Quality_Watch scrolling story looking at how #inequalities in the quality of care between the most 🏚️ and least 💷 deprived groups have changed over the last 10 years: nuffieldtrust.org.uk/public/… thread 👇
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Lock your phone away in a gripping exhibition about our 24/7 lifestyles @SomersetHouse londonist.com/london/art-and…
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A "clever and thought provoking show ... make time to see it" (@FinancialTimes) You've still got until 23 Feb to catch 24/7: A Wake-Up Call for Our Non-Stop World. Join us to reflect, refresh & reset: bit.ly/247exhibition
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#artworkoftheday @tekjadata's 'Awake', 2019, is a real time data visualisation looking at sleep and insomnia. A representation of the dreaming brain is shown against a live stream of social media posts. Part of '24/7' @SomersetHouse. aestheti.cc/f-9y5
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Check out this map by @oceanunite w/ help from @tekjadata highlighting '30 inspiring #ocean protection initiatives'. Support these efforts towards a network that strongly protects at least 30% of the ocean by 2030 bit.ly/385DMFg #Love30x30 #OneOceanOnePlanet
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