stamen have done it again. They usually do some amazingly cool stuff, and usually with maps. This time is no exception. Their contribution to Facebook Stories is pretty interesting. Called “Mapping the World’s Friendships“, it looks at the friendships between borders. It would be easy to have just stopped there, but they have also researched a bit to help the reader understand the connections better. Below is the map when my home country, Denmark, is activated. The story behind the close relationship with Greenland is described. In more detail than most Danes could describe, I unfortunately think.
Mapping the World’s Facebook Friends
12 September, 2012 • 1 minute of reading
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René C. Nielsen
Sociologist, social designer, and social change consultant usually dabbling with some combination of social innovation, strategy, computational social science, and systems thinking.