Interview about the power of digital maps
Mark Graham is interviewed about the power of digital maps
Posts tagged: mapping
New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content.”
A special issue of the journal innovations has just been published. The issue focused on the topic of ‘digital inclusion’ and features a short piece that I wrote. Graham, M. 2014 Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content. innovations 9(3-4). 17-34. The piece asks whether increasing Internet access… Read More »
New publication: Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies
New article examining historical and contemporary expectations of connectivity in East Africa
The Geographically Uneven Coverage of Wikipedia
Visualisation highlighting the fact that a majority of content produced in Wikipedia is about a relatively small part of our planet
A World’s Panorama
Building on our map of content in Flickr, this graphic tells a very similar story. Panoramio is smaller than Flickr, with about a tenth of its users, and only a fraction of its photos. Nonetheless, Panoramio plays an important role in online representations of places, as photographs on the site can be accessed as a… Read More »
Mapping the global submarine fibre-optic cable network
Visualisation of the global submarine fibre-optic cable network
Mapping the economic geographies of knowledge-production and digital participation from Sub-Saharan Africa
The first stage of the project aims to broadly understand the diversity of new practices in Sub Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy. We define the knowledge economy as a combination of IT-enabled services, the quaternary sector of the economy, and more informal processes and practices of IT-mediated information production that tend to get left out of… Read More »
Gender and Social Networks
Findings On the whole there isn’t a large disparity between men and women on the social networks represented here. The data indicate a total ratio of 1.05 males to every female. This more-or-less equal gender balance can be seen in the two largest social platforms, Facebook and YouTube, whose gender ratios are very close to the ratio in… Read More »
The World Through the Eyes of a Search Algorithm
Data Many big technology companies have developed algorithms for providing query suggestions based on input to search fields and/or immediate feedback to users (see this, this, or this patent). These techniques are commonly referred to as autosuggest, incremental search or autocomplete. Google uses the latter name for its implementation in their Web search interface. Google… Read More »
Geographic Knowledge in Freebase
Visualisation of geographic knowledge in Freebase, a core ingredient in the informational menu presented to us by Google search