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Every so often, web users with various sorts of artistic skills and different understandings of telecommunications will try to create maps of the Internet. Why, earlier this week The New York Times ran this piece about the shape of the Internet featuring two interesting maps by Peter Morance. Of course, being the comprehensive Internet cartographers [...]

As much as we enjoy learning all the various details that contribute to the expansions and contractions of successive global empires, we’d much rather watch them unfold as an animated infographic than have to, you know, learn them in a textbook or something. Happily, graduate student Pedro M. Cruz’s thesis on information visualization involved creating [...]