Tag Archives: data visualization

Network Earth

Is it possible to predict when a complex system will collapse? Might network analysis enable us to identify the “tipping points” of economies and ecologies at a variety of scales? Could such analyses increase our odds of averting catastrophe? This … Continue reading

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Charting culture

Skip to around 4:50 to see California’s magnetic pull — first centered on San Francisco, then on Los Angeles — as it draws migrants from the eastern seaboard as if they were iron filings. This animation distils hundreds of years … Continue reading

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A Cartography of the Anthropocene

A Cartography of the Anthropocene from global citizenship organization Globaia presents a collection of evocative maps of energy use, transportation networks, population, airline routes, atmospheric CO2 concentration, and more:

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