visualizations
The Best Map Porn of 2013
A look back at some of the sweetest maps published on Motherboard this year.
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This Is What Cell Phone Signals Would Look Like If You Could See Them
Who knew cellular networks could be so pretty.
The Tangled Black Hole of Reddit Has Been Mapped Into a Fly-Through Hyperverse
Happy hunting, redditors.
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Here's What the Age of Internet Empires Looks Like
The map's reminiscent of a game of Risk. Except it's real life, which is pretty scary.
What Our Idyllic, Non-Dystopian Future Would Look Like If We Fixed the World
"The World We Made" looks back from the year 2050 at how humanity came back from the brink of destruction.
What's Cooler Than a Billion Dollars? A Billion Friends
A new data visualization maps all the Facebook friend connections in the world.
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Earth Isn't So Much Wet As It Is Just Kinda Damp
And most of that dampness is still totally worthless to us.
How We Could Build "Utopia" Based on Real-Time Location Data
Turns out checking out where we check in, on Foursquare or whatever, might be the key to designing all the cities of the Future Present.
Where America Drones
It's easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. These new heat maps depict those areas most ravaged by American drones.