Mom was right: we live in a judgmental world where first impressions linger. On the web, it’s worse: the majority of us are impulsive information grazers on a restless daily quest to gather the factoids, bite-sized insights, and small amusements that feed a post-modern soul. So when building an online web map to capture […]
The launch of Google Maps in 2005 brought with it a new way to think about web maps: “tiles”. Lots of tiles. Actually, millions of tiles. The smooth panning and zooming were awesome, but keeping track of all of those 256 x 256px PNG images was, frankly, a chore. Even with a computer. And the […]
Best-selling science writer James Gleick refers to this map by John Nelson a bunch of us were linking to over the weekend (click for larger version): Dot-Density, FTW Based on similar work by Kirk Goldsberry, John took county-level data and posted a red dot for every 100 votes for Romney, a blue dot for […]