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Data-driven vision

The BBC has created a fascinating series of visualizations that show the pulsing heart of British civilization: its shipping lines, its air travel, its mobile phone communications, and London’s taxis. They’re launching a special program starting on August 10th to showcase it, called “Britain from Above.” It might be frightening to think of the many digital footprints we all leave as individuals in databases around the world, but that same data in aggregate is giving us a wonderfully penetrating mirror for examining how we all behave.

Written: August 4th, 2008

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