In orange, half of America’s GDP; in blue, the other half. While the population of the country is much more evenly dispersed, its contributions to the economy aren’t.
Here’s a fun fact: If you use Steam for your games—let’s face it, you do—there’s a chance Valve’s Anti-Cheat System been taking a look at all the websites you visit and sending a list back to home base. Why? No one knows for sure.
Ahead of the schmaltz that is Valentine’s Day, how about a little advice? This visualization shows the most frequently provided words of relationship wisdom so you can console your friends—or yourself—tomorrow.
If you’re in the unenviable position of having to traverse the country by bus or train, you better make sure this map is on your phone.
With the explosion of exercise apps and fitness trackers, more people than ever are recording the routes they run during their workouts. Now, Nathan Yau from Flowing Data has mined some of that data to visualize some of the world’s most popular paths.
Twitter holds vast amounts of data, information that has been used by multiple entities in the past to do things from mapping racism to helping form profiles on individuals. In … Continue reading
Getting your notebook or other gadgets online if you’ve a big budget but no local service – say, perhaps, because you’re desperate for WiFI in the desert or a remote … Continue reading
Look at this little guy. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but powerful enough to enable you to make phone calls, text, and use data virtually anywhere in the world. Like, even on the peaks of remote mountains or in the middle of uninhabited deserts, thanks to the magic of satellites.
Climate change is a very real thing