Have a look at these three amazing maps from MIT’s Senseable City Lab. They come from the New York Talk Exchange project which reflect long distance telephone and IP data flowing between NYC and other cities around the world (h/t: Barry Wellman, Kevin Stolarick).
February 25th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Fascinating. There seems to be two kinds of traffic: Between major financial and creative centers (Europe & Japan); and migrants calling home (Carribean and Brazil). Overgeneralizing, I know. Interesting that it doesn’t show the US West Coast, India or China.
I wonder what this would look like for other cities? San Francisco? London? Mumbai?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I wonder if some of the calls to Canada are migrants calling family members who’ve migrated to a different part of the new world…