Topic: Data
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Maps
A Real-Time Bike-Share Map for the Entire World
About 13,000 people were out riding shared bicycles across the globe this afternoon.
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Charts
America's Biggest and Fastest-Growing Cities
8 of the country's 15 fastest-growing cities are in Texas.
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Maps
How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication
New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about.
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Maps
A Live Map of the Manic Ways People Edit Wikipedia
The map offers a nifty live survey of people's utterly random interests (or perceived areas of expertise).
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Videos
What Public Transit Data Teaches Us About How People Use a City
What does a city look like when viewed through the movement of its riders?
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Maps
This Cutting-Edge Map Tool Turns Anyone Into a Cartographer
OpenStreetMap debuts a new map editor that will close the gap between grassroots mapping and its giant industry rivals.
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Maps
Your Rush-Hour Commute as an Animated Cartoon
A playful take on serious transit data.
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What an Urban Planner Should Look Like in the Internet Age
As digital and physical worlds move ever closer together, cities need architects expert in both buildings and information.
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Maps
How a Map Is Like an Op-Ed
Thanks to the open data movement, anyone can be a cartographer. Professor Laura Kurgan on geography as a storytelling tool.
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Videos
Aggregating Cell Phone Data in Search of the 'Pulse of the Planet'
Universal mobility patterns we haven't fully understood before could soon come into view.
