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Academic study on the use of the octopus metaphor to represent grasping, controlling invasive entities etc. Examines many examples.
Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a nation, an ideology, or an ethnicity) is depicted as a literal or figurative octopus, with extending tendrils. In this paper, we explore how octopus maps function as visual arguments through an analysis of historical examples as well as a through a crowd-sourced study on how the underlying data and the use of visual metaphors contribute to specific negative or conspiratorial interpretations. We find that many features of the data or visual style can lead to “octopus-like” thinking in visualizations, even without the use of an explicit octopus motif. We conclude with a call for a deeper analysis of visual rhetoric, and an acknowledgment of the potential for the design of data visualizations to contribute to harmful or conspiratorial thinking.
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Source: https://landgeist.com/2022/04/12/spirits-consumption-in-europe/
Other maps on the same topic from the source:
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New Zealand doesn't exist, as usual.
Edit: Swapped image link.
Original link: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/9a23037f-23da-44ea-ad39-c7a3147a935c.png
RIP lemm.ee
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Located in London, I measured the RTT or round trip time to 574,691 random webservers and plotted the times on the globe.
Discovery was done with masscan, measurements using hping and plotting with an old Python script I've revived and enhanced.
This is part of the next writeup on my blog, with which I will be posting any of the code I've used.
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Couldn't find more recent data. Was talking with a friend recently about their idea of moving to a rural location and we were brainstorming what the benefits and downsides are.
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