Two years ago, we started a website that lets travelers plan their trip with the assistance of big data. All itineraries used in the analysis come from our site. The visual was made using Gephi. Each city is plotted with its (lat, lng) coordinates and connected to any other city that came after it in someone’s itinerary. For example, London is connected to Paris because there’s at least one itinerary going from the former to the latter. The countries were clustered together and colored using the Louvain Modularity. All countries of the same color have trips that go between each other more often than other countries.
![image showing The World, Drawn with 17,000+ Travel Itineraries (high-res in comments) [OC]](3d6fd961-a0e6-5f91-9795-b0256ab4c32a.jpg)
teamgonuts on July 18th, 2017 at 12:12 UTC »
High-res image and more analysis can be found here.
Two years ago, we started a website that lets travelers plan their trip with the assistance of big data. All itineraries used in the analysis come from our site. The visual was made using Gephi. Each city is plotted with its (lat, lng) coordinates and connected to any other city that came after it in someone’s itinerary. For example, London is connected to Paris because there’s at least one itinerary going from the former to the latter. The countries were clustered together and colored using the Louvain Modularity. All countries of the same color have trips that go between each other more often than other countries.
Bovelio on July 18th, 2017 at 14:49 UTC »
What's with the activity to the East of Australia? I haven't seen that Island on a map before this post.
OceanAlaska on July 18th, 2017 at 15:03 UTC »
That bright blue dot on top of Alaska is Prudhoe Bay, where I currently work. Now I'm curious where they flew from and where they were going?