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World Map of Internet Adresses

[caption id="attachment_1013" align="aligncenter" width="650" caption="World Map of Internet Adresses (cutout)"][/caption] This visualizations shows the geographic location of 1,139,441,531 ip adresses. The locations are grouped by city, divided into four categories according to the total number of ip adresses belonging to a city. ...

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Selected Map Projections in ActionScript

Update: I strongly recommend the use of as3-proj instead, which includes far more map projections and lots of other features. Something you definitely need if you're planning to create some geospatial visualizations from scratch is map projection. Map projection means the conversion of sphere coordinates (basically pairs of latitude and longitude values) to 2D-screen coordinates. While this is very easy for smaller regions like single countries things are getting complicated if you want to display the whole world.

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Visualization and interpretation of weather station data

There's some kind of hype around climate data these days. Since the UK’s National Weather Service recently published an enormous set of weather station data files there's a growing number of visualizations spreading the net. Among a few other examples I found this very nice and clear ...

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Mapping scalar data to circles

A very simple rule in visualizations is to never map scalar data to circle radii. Humans do better in comparing relative areas, so if you want to map data to a shape, you have to map it to it's area. The rule is that simple that normally it's not worth ...

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Real-time Visualization of Site Traffic

The last days I worked on a visualization experiment that shows the geographic locations of blog page requests on a world map. Furthermore, the visualization should be animated over time, so one can replay past events or just view the current live data. The last thing I added was an ...

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