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New Animated Map of Earthquake Tweets
Green dots are tweets about earthquakes. Gray dots are tweets about other topics. Each frame is one second (total of 12 minutes). Thanks to Natural Earthfor the land, water, and boundary shape data and the Twitter Streaming API for the tweet.
Neat little graphic.
If this isn’t enough for you, like you really need to dig deep into the speed of seismic waves and tweet waves, there’s a complete geographical/physics/numbery analysis over at Dot Physics: “Tweetwaves vs. Seismic Waves”.
It was directly inspired by a comic at xkcd, so we can all rejoice about that.
(Source: jeffmiller, via jtotheizzoe)
Posted on August 26, 2011 via The Trunk with 38 notes
Comparing and contrasting information mapped to the continental United States of America, hence Maps Of the Continental United States (MOCUS).
Feel free to send me links to other interesting MOCUSes.
Urban dictionary:
Mocus - Adj. A state of confusion, often referring to the state of mind brought about by detoxification. Derived from "mostly out of focus."
You need to forgive his blithering; he just got out of detox so he's really mocus.
