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mpetrov | 11 years ago

We're planning to do a larger tech focused write-up on this infographic soon. On the backend it's powered by Node and Redis and runs within an EC2 auto scaling group.

Let me know if I can elaborate on any of the tech behind this visualization.

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dsl|11 years ago

Do you filter out data points within a given city? It seems like most couples would live in the same city...

mpetrov|11 years ago

Those data points appear as circular flashes without a line, there are quite a few of them there. The app appeals to a lot of long distance Couples so the map is somewhat biased towards long distance communication.

Also if you look at big cities (LA, NYC, SF) you'll see a continuous stream of circles flashing without lines. So the data just overlaps a lot.

acre88|11 years ago

Very handsome visualization. I'm looking forward to the follow-up on how this was put together, especially the front-end.

kkwok|11 years ago

This is a fantastic visualization. Would love to see as much as you're comfortable sharing with us!