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FIGURE 2-5
Distance to McDonald's
(2010) by Stephen Von Worley,
http://datal.ws/24y
Now it seems like you can find data on almost anything if you look hard
enough. Using a ready-to-use, comma-delimited file, Stephen Von Worley cal-
culated the distance to the nearest McDonald's everywhere in the contiguous
United States and mapped it. As shown in Figure 2-5, the brighter an area, the
less time it'll take to grab a Big Mac.
Even newer, social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, continue to
flourish, which provide a new source of information on what people are talk-
ing about and concerned with. Data is readily accessible via the application
programming interfaces (API). Photo-sharing site Flickr also has an accessible
API. Eric Fischer combined data from Twitter and Flickr in his series of maps
titled
See Something or Say Something
, shown in Figure 2-6.
FIGURE 2-6
(following page)
See Something or Say Something
(2011) by Eric Fischer,
http://datafl.ws/2ba
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