Heat Maps

Ultimately I would like to see and to show the dynamic of work and play on the CMU campus and in other areas. I would like to express this as a heat map where a place where people are doing work would be represented as a “hotter” area (and places where people are playing or not working would be cooler).

Heat maps are usually used to represent activity of some kind (ex. either frequency of clicks on a website, or the amount of time that a soccer player spends on an area of a field). They can be easily examined at a glance, but also upon closer inspection lead to interesting information.