The Tiptop 10 Torque Maps - Amongst No Football

I honey CartoDB's Torque library but if I encounter i to a greater extent than Twitter map of a World Cup game I holler upwards I mightiness explode. I holler upwards nosotros instruct it straightaway - people Tweet a lot when individual scores a goal. Torque is a really powerful visualization tool for animating large time-stamped information steps on an interactive map. It genuinely does deserve to live on used inward meliorate mapped visualizations.

Ramadan: How the World Celebrates mightiness live on some other Torque / Twitter map but it does add together a few novel interesting tweaks to the park Torque powered Twitter visualizations. In 2013 74.2 1000000 Twitter messages were sent to a greater extent than or less the basis 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 precisely a meaningless playback of Twitter activeness overlaid on a map. Instead it genuinely attempts to analyse some of the cultural differences gleaned from the information yesteryear looking at the linguistic communication together with words used inward unlike countries together with regions.

During the animation the map zooms inward on unlike areas of the basis together with reveals some interesting contextual information nearly the kind out of messages sent inward unlike areas. For example, inward the USA the long summertime days hateful that a lot of Muslims ship messages nearly how hungry together with thirsty they are. In Turkey 'May you lot live on inward skilful health' is a pop message. While inward Paris together with Saudi Arabia, afterward the Sun sets, many Muslim Twitter users lift the dates that they are eating.


A Plane Spraying a Rice Field inward Southern Spain deserves a lift every bit well, precisely because it is a Torque powered visualization that doesn't role Twitter information together with doesn't lift football. This Torque powered map (actually it seems to live on missing a map) animates the GPS rails of a airplane taking off from a landing strip, spraying a rice field, landing, refueling, taking off again, spraying i time to a greater extent than together with returning to a landing strip.

I've no take in if this uses a existent GPS rails or is precisely a exhibit map of how crop spraying industrial plant but it is a uncomplicated together with 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 together with secret stations were opened
Navy of WWI - an animation of Britain's Royal Navy operations inward the get-go World War.
UK Fishing Vessel Movements
Amsterdam: Fire Engine Callouts
Nine Years of the States Tornadoes
A Day inward the Life of the Long Island Railroad
Philadelphia Homicides 2006-2012
The Animated Geography of TV News