[Air-L] What are internet research's iconic diagrams?

Alex Gekker gekker.alex at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 02:45:58 PDT 2016


The facebook connections map that manifests as the developed world
contours. Poignant both for it being visually striking and very politically
loaded.
https://m.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919/

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 10:32 Karen Davies <kdfantastic36 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Hi Alex
> You might want to include Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's disastrous
> Russian campaign of 1812. The graphic is notable for its representation in
> two dimensions of six types of data: the number of Napoleon's troops;
> distance; temperature; the latitude and longitude; direction of travel; and
> location relative to specific dates. (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard)
> Karen Davies
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