Facebook has 800 million active users around the world who constantly update their statuses, upload photos and check-in to locations. That's an incredibly difficult amount of activity to process -- so hopefully these beautiful visualizations will help.
The above four maps were posted by Justin Moore, data scientist at Facebook, to the company's data blog on Monday afternoon. Moore used a Java-based applet called Processing to create the beautiful info-packed images.
"The images. . .attempt to visually analyze how people are using location with Facebook and present some unique slices of data," wrote Moore.
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