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Cartography » Another Fascinating Visualisation of Cultural Divisions in the US

February 9th, 2010
Here is a fascinating visualization of Facebook friends across the United States. The author clumps the friend groups into local areas and draws some conclusions from the connections. What a cool use for this data. I wonder what else we can learn from the “social graph”? There is also an interactive version of the map [...]
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Cartography » Electoral College Reform Map

January 30th, 2010
I am not sure how I feel about the proposed electoral college reform at this link, but the map that came with it is really fascinating. It splits the country into equal-population chunks based around population centers and cultural spheres. http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/
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