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Zombie Map of the World, anyone?

What happens if you search for zombies on Google Maps? This is what some researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute asked, reported some time ago The Guardian. And this is the result, which, according to one of the study’s authors, … Continue reading

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Twitter distribution

Twitter Charts See the distribution of my tweets during the day as of 7th November, 2009. Enter http://xefer.com/twitter/<your-own-twitter-id> and you can have it, too.

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Animated maps with data mined from the Web

Image via Wikipedia I found a couple of fascinating examples of the use of data repositories over the Web. Both deal with Walmart’s spread all over he US, since its opening. The first example uses freebase as the data provider. … Continue reading

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