Tag Archives: visualization

Zombie Map of the World, anyone?

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Tweet 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 … Continue reading →

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Twitter distribution

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Tweet 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

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Tweet 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 … Continue reading →

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