Uploaded on 2016-09-21 by Sasha Kvakic

This photo depicts a luxury waterfront apartment building in Victoria, BC, Canada. It was taken at around 2030 on a weeknight. The more obvious visible information about the building conveyed by this photo range from the site (on a waterfront pedestrian causeway), clues about the age of the building and the architectural style employed, the level of finish, and very few lights are on. Some of the invisible information that could be inferred from these visible facts include the wealth and social class of the owners and the possibility that many of the units are held as vacation or investment property by foreign owners. The fact that few lights are on at a time early in the evening when most people would be home and awake strongly suggests the latter assumption, but absent a more systematic study to correlate the visible data with other less visible datasets such as land titles and energy usage over time we can't be sure. At a time when housing prices in Vancouver and Victoria have outstripped many citizens' ability to pay these kinds of data and information have become highly politicised.