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10 Ways How Data Is Changing Our Lives - Datavisualization.ch
Conrad Quilty-Harper has written an article for Telegraph.co.uk about how data is changing how we live. It’s a list of 10 real-world examples in the fields of Shopping, Relationships, Business deliveries, Maps, Education, Politics, Society, War and Advertising. Although the article is rather focused on the benefits of data mining for companies than for humans there are examples that show fundamental shifts in our society. As one of the commenters points out there are other domains that make good use of data collection and analysis like Health Care, Crisis Information Management, Urban Sensing. It’s a good read — I just wished Quilty-Harper would have gone in more detail about possible implications in privacy and security.
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World Map of the Day: Facebook data infrastructure engineering team intern Paul was “interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends,” so he plugged a sample of approx. ten million pairs of friends into the open-source statistics environment R. He played around with the data until he managed to get the effect he wanted.
After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life.
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World Map of the Day: Facebook data infrastructure engineering team intern Paul was “interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends,” so he plugged a sample of approx. ten million pairs of friends into the open-source statistics environment R. He played around with the data until he managed to get the effect he wanted.
After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life.
Click here for hi-res.
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An attempt at redesigning this chart from The Guardian to make the plaintiffs and defendants a bit more clear.
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Map your moves – A visual exploration of where New Yorkers moved in the last decade [Interactive]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l84m2lBoX31qcforxo1_500.jpg)
Map your moves – A visual exploration of where New Yorkers moved in the last decade [Interactive]
