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Visualizing the Relational Spaces of Hurricane Sandy 14 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Nearly a year ago, Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the eastern seaboard of the US, wreaking havoc on the lives of millions of people in its path. At the time, we threw together some quick maps of whe...
Tweeting for Trayvon 17 Jul 2013 | 10:30 pm
While the not guilty verdict is in for George Zimmerman, the discussion about and ramifications of Trayvon Martin's killing seventeen months ago are only beginning, from protest marches throughout the...
Welcome to 'Merica (or is it 'Murica?) 3 Jul 2013 | 10:30 pm
"Chicken & waffle flavored lays? #Murica." On this day (well, technically the day before) in which we celebrate our independence from those limey redcoats and their tea-guzzling ways [1], it's time we...
The Geography of #StandWithWendy Tweets 28 Jun 2013 | 07:46 pm
The filibuster by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis on June 25th to block a new piece of legislation that would have resulted in many more restrictions on abortion in Texas brought a lot of attention to...
Mapping Zombies Book Chapter Now Available! 24 Jun 2013 | 05:02 pm
Not often do we get to write about zombies, internet geography, German Wikipedia articles, cats, and goatse.cx all in the same chapter. But that is precisely what we got to do when working on our newe...
The Maps of IronSheep 2013 7 Jun 2013 | 09:00 pm
It's been about a month and a half since our IronSheep maphacking event at the AAGs in Los Angeles, but with the end of semester, the Geography of Hate map and a number of other goings on around Float...
Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia 2 Jun 2013 | 12:23 am
Wikipedia, the collection of 37 million articles that anyone can edit, is defined by conflict. The ability for anyone to shape this global repository of knowledge inevitable means that we are presente...
FAQ: The Geography of Hate 14 May 2013 | 07:40 am
Dear Readers, Thanks to everyone (well, almost everyone) for their comments and constructive critiques on our Geography of Hate map. In light of all of the different directions these comments have co...
The Geography of Hate 10 May 2013 | 06:57 pm
Following the 2012 US Presidential election, we created a map of tweets that referred to President Obama using a variety of racist slurs. In the wake of that map, we received a number of criticisms - ...
Tweeting the AAGs 6 May 2013 | 09:34 pm
Now that we've all had a couple of weeks after the AAGs to relax and make fun of certain unnamed party-animals, we thought we would reflect on how the conference itself was reflected in the Twittersph...
