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Invisible Cities: Tweets and Photos as Terrain on a Map

What would it look like if you could actually see all of the tweets and Instagram photos from a Beyonce concert in New York City hovering above the skyline in physical form? A project called ...

Criminal Contours: Crime Rates as Topographic Maps

Who knew that San Francisco had a mountain called 'Prostitution Peak'? Such hidden 'landscape features' are revealed when the city's crime statistics are analyzed as a 3D topographic map. Data ...

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