Facebook Data Team Brings Check-Ins To Life

The Facebook Data team used Java-based open-source language Processing to create four visualizations illustrating how the social network’s members are using its location feature.

The Facebook Data team used Java-based open-source language Processing to create four visualizations illustrating how the social network’s members are using its location feature.

From a note on the Facebook Data page:

Ages of People Checking In Around the World: This is one day of check-ins that has been plotted so that each pixel is colored if there are at least three check-ins in that pixel. The color ranges from green to blue, representing the average age of users in that pixel.

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