I dearest CartoDB's Torque library but if I encounter i to a greater extent than Twitter map of a World Cup game I recall I mightiness explode. I recall nosotros larn it immediately - people Tweet a lot when somebody scores a goal. Torque is a real powerful visualization tool for animating large time-stamped information steps on an interactive map. It genuinely does deserve to survive used inward meliorate mapped visualizations.
Ramadan: How the World Celebrates mightiness survive some other Torque / Twitter map but it does add together a few novel interesting tweaks to the commons Torque powered Twitter visualizations. In 2013 74.2 i grand k Twitter messages were sent some the globe mentioning Ramadan. This map animates through the Tweets genuinely sent during Ramadan itself.
What I similar most nearly Ramadan: How the World Celebrates is that it isn't exactly a meaningless playback of Twitter action overlaid on a map. Instead it genuinely attempts to analyse some of the cultural differences gleaned from the information past times looking at the linguistic communication as well as words used inward dissimilar countries as well as regions.
During the animation the map zooms inward on dissimilar areas of the globe as well as reveals some interesting contextual information nearly the assort of messages sent inward dissimilar areas. For example, inward the USA the long summertime days hateful that a lot of Muslims ship messages nearly how hungry as well as thirsty they are. In Turkey 'May you lot survive inward skilful health' is a pop message. While inward Paris as well as Saudi Arabia, subsequently the Sun sets, many Muslim Twitter users advert the dates that they are eating.
A Plane Spraying a Rice Field inward Southern Spain deserves a advert every bit well, only because it is a Torque powered visualization that doesn't purpose Twitter information as well as doesn't advert football. This Torque powered map (actually it seems to survive missing a map) animates the GPS rails of a bird taking off from a landing strip, spraying a rice field, landing, refueling, taking off again, spraying i time again as well as returning to a landing strip.
I've no sentiment if this uses a existent GPS rails or is exactly a exhibit map of how crop spraying industrial plant but it is a uncomplicated as well as peachy demonstration of a crop-spraying flying pattern.
Other non-Football non-Twitter Torque Maps
London's Rail System inward lx seconds - when London's rail as well as hush-hush stations were opened
Navy of WWI - an animation of Britain's Royal Navy operations inward the commencement World War.
UK Fishing Vessel Movements
Amsterdam: Fire Engine Callouts
Nine Years of U.S.A. Tornadoes
A Day inward the Life of the Long Island Railroad
Philadelphia Homicides 2006-2012
The Animated Geography of TV News
