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NPR has this amazing project called Borderlandthat I’ve been properly flipping out over lately. The project is a fantastic example of different types of media seamlessly and effectively merging, but even better is this write-up showing exactly how the team made the site.

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Jennifer Marvillas,

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You can spy on anyone now. [Link from Alexis Madrigal's Real Future newsletter]

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These images, by digital illustrator Istvan imagine what cities of the future look like (I prefer to view them as pretty images, though). Learn more here.

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(The Guardian likes a good London map, doesn't it?)

Regardless of crime and income levels, people are happiest living in an area that matches their personality, claim researchers

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An interesting read if you're interested in either the behavioral and perception differences between computer novices and experts or the Uncanny Valley effect. Came to me via Alexis Madrigal's 5 Interesting Things Newsletter, excerpt from abstract below: "This paper examines how young adults process information related to privacy, and how that affects their attitude towards behavioral targeted advertising. Differences between computer novices and experts were examined based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model (Petty & Cacioppo, 1984), which argues that people who have the ability to process information do so differently than those who do not have the ability.... We also identified an “uncanny valley” effect where people liked customization of targeted advertisements, but then became uncomfortable if the advertisements seemed to know too much of their past behavior until the suggestions were perfectly aligned with their interests."

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As part of this fellowship, I've found myself creating loads of London maps. Figured I might as well share a couple of them, starting with this one.

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Not so recent, but still relevant.

Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi ¶ We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where…

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This is the newest edition in sites you should be reading.

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This comes from the wonderful website of UMiami professor Alberto Cairo. He's got some incisive posts on visualizing information, so it's a great place to loiter around if you're looking for that type of content. (I'm slowly taking baby steps into the visualization portion of my project, so this is becoming particularly relevant for me.)

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"The important criterion for a graph is not simply how fast we can see a result; rather it is whether through the use of the graph we can see something that would have been harder to see otherwise or that could not have been seen at all."

William Cleveland

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Jumpstarting a new existence in an emerging city. This is an interactive documentary about everyday life in Domiz Camp, a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq. A combination of drawings, film, photography, sound and text takes you into the world behind the relief organization posters and gives you the opportunity to discover the camp and meet the residents.

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Using Monochrome, you can design custom map print clothing. A little too much for me, but surely enticing to someone out there.

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I’ve been tracking geotagged tweets from Twitter’s public API for the last three and a half years. There are about 10 million public geotagged tweets every day, which is about...

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The wonderful Eric Fischer strikes again with a map of over 6 billion tweets (and counting). This image doesn't do the full visualisation justice; check it out here.

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An extension for Google Chrome which, when activated, anonymously links you with another person. When you browse, your partner is taken to the same urls...