When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued my curiosity was the locality of friendship. I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them.
The brain is fascinating, and this citizen science project is aiming to create an actual physical map of the cells within it. No shit. How full on is that!
“Indoor” GPS technology is set to revolutionise the way we use location-based services by offering an unprecedented level of destination information at virtually any location on the planet.
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