work/Social Media

Facebook’s Own Global Base Map

It’s been our privilege to work on one of our largest and most ambitious undertakings ever: collaborating closely with a team of Facebook engineers, designers, and data experts to roll out a global, multi-scale base map for all of Facebook’s b...

Facebook Flowers

Facebook Flowers diagrams the viral activity that followed George Takei sharing a picture on Facebook. Each share generates a thread, and follow-on shares continue as extensions of that strand, blooming as the picture is passed from friend to frie...

Facebook: Mapping the World’s Friendships

This project visualized the degree of interconnectedness between Facebook’s hundreds of millions of members as part of Facebook’s Stories initiative. Countries are sorted by a combination of how many Facebook friendships there are betw...

Pinterest Place Pins Maps

We designed a new map for Pinterest’s Place Pins that lets you map the things you love, near and far, making the pins more actionable and bringing out the explorer in all of us. Making a map style for t...

Pretty Maps

Prettymaps is an experimental, interactive map composed of multiple freely available, community-generated data sources: All the Flickr shapefiles rendered as a...

MTV Music Awards Twitter Visualizations

We worked with MTV on a series of live visualizations of realtime Twitter data. The effort started with the 2009 Video Music Awards, and was extended to multiple other simultaneous ...

Digg Labs

Digg.com was, for a time, one of the most-visited sites on the internet. The site’s ever-changing content, all submitted by members, provides a vivid window onto what was interesting online, ...