Facebook intern Paul Butler has created a detailed map of the world by mapping connections between people using the social network living in different cities.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

The disconnected portions of the this map tell us as much about the world we live in as the highly illuminated ones. Might this be a version of the “Black Marble” image that would reasonate more with today’s teenagers?  For the methods behind the creation of this map as well as a high resolution version of the map, see this post.

Tags: social media, map, visualization, cartography.

See on www.bbc.co.uk