Friday, June 28, 2013

Twitter visualizes billions of tweets in artful, interactive 3D maps

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On June 1st, Twitter created beautiful maps visualizing billions of geotagged tweets. Today, the social network is getting artsy once agsain, using the same dataset — which it calls Billion Strokes — to produce interactive elevation maps that render geotagged tweets in 3D. This time around, Twitter visualized geotagged tweets from San Francisco, New York, and Istanbul in maps that viewers can manipulate.


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/28/4475804/twitter-interactive-3d-map-tweet-visualization

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