The Internet’s veins

 

 

The Internet today is only made possible by tens of thousands of kilometres of cabling at the bottom of the sea and buried underground. The above GIF from Vice’s Motherboard site shows the development of the submarine backbone from 1989 to 2017.

Credits: Builtvisible and TeleGeography via Meghan Neal and Vice Motherboard

The living, breathing New York City

 

A visualization of the work and life cycle of Manhattan (see the CBD glow!)

Credits: Joey Cherdarchuk, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Darkhorse Analytics, Kevin Short and HuffPost via Cat Walker, Info Graphic and Pinterest

The e-constellation of Python

 

A laptop showing a constellation-like 3D graph made using the software Python and data visualisation tool Matplotlib.

Credits: Codecademy via GMail