Major Metropolises Visualized Through Tweets
1. Europe 2. Noth America 3. Tokyo 4. New York 5. Istanbul 6. MoscowTwitter recently created a visualization of all of the geo-tagged Tweets since 2009. The resulting satellite images of major cities depicted through billions of dots (each dot being a tweet, with the colour symbolizing the amount of tweets) is stunning to say the least. Cities in the Visualizations series include Tokyo, Moscow, Istanbul, Boston, and as seen above, New York. They also have maps of both North America and Europe. Take a closer look below and check out the full series on Twitter’s Flickr page.
Tweet visualisation beauty
Creativity through the lens of code
(via CLOUDS Interactive Documentary by James George, Jonathan Minard — Kickstarter)
![3D station maps - all kinds of awesome
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Station Maps: Browser-Based 3D Maps of the London Underground
Station Maps [aeracode.org] by programmer Andrew Godwin contains a large collection of browser-based (HTML5) 3D maps depicting different London Underground/DLR stations.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6creyFhkW1qhn3smo1_250.jpg)
3D station maps - all kinds of awesome
Station Maps [aeracode.org] by programmer Andrew Godwin contains a large collection of browser-based (HTML5) 3D maps depicting different London Underground/DLR stations.
Who’s Been Working In America?
Jobs are definitely a top of mind subject. Did you know that manufacturing jobs were the largest sector of employment in 1960, yet today the category has fallen to 6th place? In this interactive visualization, browse who has been working in America over the past 50 years by sector, gender or age. Or take a look at GE’s expert opinion on the subject and tweet your own thoughts about key insights uncovered. This is best viewed in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE9.
The typewriter installation «On Journalism #2 Typewriter» writes generatively constructed stories about all journalist who have been killed worldwide between 1992 and today based on the existing data of their lives as well as their published work. The individual stories are connected through common fields of coverage, places, professions and many other aspects. Besides the text the typewriter creates also images e.g. flags which are heavier distorted the more journalists got killed in that particular country.
There are 5,393 carceral facilities in the United States, places where people are held in local jails, state prisons, federal corrections facilities, immigration detention centers – “anywhere where an individual can be sort of confined and locked up,” explains Josh Begley, “and, in some of the bigger instances, warehoused in one place.”
Begley is a master’s student in the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University. He wanted to graphically represent what all of this means, to communicate not just the sheer quantity of prisons in America (a number that has been booming for decades), but their volume on our landscape. As part of a class project, he created the oddly beautiful website Prison Map, which offers a mashed-up birds-eye view of all of these places, taken from Google Satellite images.
(via The Stunning Geography of Incarceration - Design - The Atlantic Cities)
Massive Health
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