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Work by Floatingsheep has been featured in a variety of prominent online and print news sources, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist, Wired Magazine, Slate, Die Ziet, CNN, The BBC, The Huffington Post, die Tageszeitung, The St. Petersburg Times, The Lexington Herald-Leader, The Daily Mail, The Nation, Digg, Mashable, Strange Maps, FlowingData, and The Consumerist.


05.20.13 from Time
The Geography of U.S. Hate, Mapped using Twitter

05.17.13 from BET
Commentary: "Geography of Hate" Map Is Interesting…to a Point

05.16.13 CBC/Public Radio International

05.16.13 from Colorlines
'Geography of Hate' Maps our Racism on Twitter

05.16.13 from Kansas City Star
Map of hateful tweets shows hotspots are mostly in eastern half of U.S.

05.15.13 BBC World Service

05.15.13 from JOL Press
«Geography of hate»: une cartographie de la haine sur Twitter


05.14.13 Wired.co.uk
Hate Map plots homophobia and racism across the US

05.14.13 from Slate
The Next Chapter on Hate Speech Will Be Written on Social Media

05.14.13 from die Tageszeitung
Die Geografie des Hasses

05.14.13 from HetLaaste Nieuws
Geography of Hate' brengt haatdragende tweets in kaart

05.13.13 from Discovery.com
Racist, Homophobic Tweets Mapped

05.13.13 Il Post
Lo “hate speech” per i social network

05.13.13 Le Monde
Des étudiants créent une « carte de la haine » sur Twitter

05.13.13 from Vice's Motherboard
Introducing Hate, the Map

05.13.13 from Zeit Online
Wo Amerikaner hassen

05.13.13 from Mashable
'Geography of Hate' Maps Racist, Homophobic, Ableist Tweets

05.13.13 from Flowing Data
Geography of hate against gays, races, and the disabled

05.10.13 from io9.com
An Interactive Map of Racist, Homophobic and Ableist Tweets in America

05.10.13 from Gawker
Map of Twitter Racism Shows Twitter is Racist Everywhere

05.10.13 from The Atlantic Cities
Where Americans Tweet Messages of Hate

05.10.13 from The Guardian
Mapping hate speech: homophobia and racism on twitter

03.26.13 from The Atlantic Cities
Who Writes the Wikipedia Entries About Where You Live?

02.06.13 from The Atlantic Cities
How the Internet Reinforces Inequality in the Real World

02.04.13 from the Business Insider
36 Maps That Explain The Entire World

01.11.12 from The Guardian
Which Premier League teams are the most popular in each area? A Twitter interactive map

01.11.12 from Twitter
#TwitterLeagueTable

12.28.12 from the Guardian
2012: the year in data, journalism (and charts)

12.27.12 from John Clay's Sidelines at the Lexington Herald-Leader
Study shows #bbn tweets swamp #L1C4 tweets

12.20.12 from the Atlantic Cities
2012's Year in Maps

12.19.12 from io9.com
Map of the Pope’s followers on Twitter confirms: Earth is rife with godless heathens

12.12.12. from the Guardian
The Pope has joined Twitter - how are his followers distributed around the world?

11.28.2012 from the Guardian
Digital trails of the UK floods - how well do tweets match observations?

11.23.2012 from Mashable
Mapping Thanksgiving Dishes Using Twitter

11.23.2012 from the Guardian
Mashed turnips, anyone? Using social media to map Thanksgiving foods

11.12.2012 from the National Monitor
Geographers create map of which states sent the most racist post-election tweets

11.11.2012 from Slashdot
Geomapping Racism With Twitter

11.10.2012 from Gawker
Which States Sent The Most Racist Tweets After The Election?

11.09.2012 from the Los Angeles Times
Election-related 'hate' tweets big in Alabama, Mississippi

11.09.2012 from Time Magazine
Where Did All Those Racist Anti-Obama Tweets Come From? Here’s the Science

11.09.2012 from Salon.com 
Where are America’s racist anti-Obama tweets coming from?

11.09.2012 from Le Monde
GUERRE DE SÉCESSION – Une carte des tweets racistes envers Obama

11.09.2012 from the Miami New Times
Congratulations! Florida Had the Least Racist Tweets After Obama's Reelection of Any Southern State
 
11.09.2012 from The Atlantic
Where America's Racist Tweets Come From

11.09.2012 from The Guardian
Mapping racist Tweets in response to President Obama's re-election

11.09.2012 from FlowingData
Mapping racist tweets

11.08.2012 from the Birmingham News Alabama blog
Alabama leads in racist tweets post-election; can we tweet tolerance?

11.08.2012 from the Daily Mail (U.K.)
The Racist States of America

11.07.2012 from FastCo.Design
How New York Tweeted During Hurricane Sandy

11.04.2012 from The Lexington Herald-Leader

10.31.2012 from The Guardian
What can Twitter tell us about Hurricane Sandy flooding? Visualized.

10.27.2012 from the Economist
The New Local

10.27.2012 from the Economist
The World in Your Pocket

10.5.2012 from Arcata Eye
(Big)Bird is the Word

07.18.2012 from Gizmodo
Evidence That Klout Doesn't Make Sense, Visualized

07.17.2012 from The Atlantic Cities
Map of the Day: The Geography of Klout

07.09.2012 from CNN Belief Blog
Study: People tweet more about church than beer

07.09.2012 from Upworthy
WARNING: Your State May Be A God-Forsaken Beer Fest. Here’s The Map.

07.06.2012 from Michigan Live
Church or beer? Twitter analysis points to Michigan's love for the bubbly stuff

07.06.2012 from io9.com
Tweets of the words "beer" and "church" by U.S. county

07.06.2012 from Flowing Data
Beer versus church mapped

07.05.2012 from The Atlantic Cities
Map of the Day: Church vs. Beer

07.04.2012 from The Guardian
Church vs beer: using Twitter to map regional differences in US culture

03.26.2012 from The Atlantic
Confirmed: The Internet Does Not Solve Global Inequality

03.26.2012 from The BBC
Oxford launches free interactive course book

03.09.2012 from The Guardian
Big Data and the end of Theory?

01.19.2012 from Salon.com
Inside the Underground Economy

12.27.2011 from The Maddow Blog
Map: Italian Christmas Cake

12.27.2011 from Geo-Web Junction
The Top 10 Best Maps -- Ever!

12.16.2011 from The Guardian
Santa v Satan v Zombies: who wins in the battle for Google Maps?

11.14.2011 from The Atlantic Cities
Mapping the 'Anti-Creative Class'

11.14.2011 from the Arizona Daily Star
Data let researchers look at pot economy

11.14.2011 from Motherboard.tv
Mapping the Promised Lands: Welcome To the 'Slacker Strata'

11.11.2011 from The Guardian
The world of Wikipedia's languages mapped

10.24.2011 from The Atlantic Cities
The Geography of Weed

10.18.2011 from WTVQ Channel 36
Is New I-Phone App Going Too Far

09.30.2011 from The Guardian
The Flickr map of the world

09.23.2011 from The Guardian
The Zombie map of the world

09.14.2011 from the Arizona Daily Wildcat
Marijuana nationwide: UA student maps prices

09.13.2011 from The Jay Thomas Show on Sirius Satellite Radio
Interview on the Jay Thomas Show

09.10.2011 from STLtoday
Short take: Free-market weed

09.09.2011 from Slate.fr
Le marché américain du cannabis cartographié

09.02.2011 from Andrew Sullivan's The Dish at The Daily Beast
Modern Prohibition

09.02.2011 from Motherboard
Two Software Developers are Seeing to it That You Never Get Ripped Off Buying Weed Again

09.02.2011 from Broward Palm Beach New Times
Marijuana Prices in South Florida Are Getting High, but Definitely Not the Highest

09.01.2011 from Network World
Underground Economy: Mapping the Price of Pot Across the Internet

08.30.2011 from Wired Magazine
O Say, Can You THC?

08.30.2011 from The Huffington Post
Illinois' Marijuana Estimated To Be Among The Nation's Most Expensive

08.30.2011 from NORML Blog
Wired Magazine: Check the Map. Are You Paying Too Much For Your Marijuana?

08.29.2011 from Gizmodo
Map Proves You Are Paying Too Much For Marijuana

08.29.2011 from FlowingData
Price of weed

03.07.2011 from Science Online
Power to the people through citizen cartography

12.06.2010 from Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish at The Atlantic
Where Are America's Corner Pubs? Wisconsin.

08.20.2010 from the Emerging Health Threats Forum
People Power Emergency Response

07.13.2010 from the Rachel Maddow Blog
Where Google thinks the liberals are

06.19.2010 from The Economist
"Football" crazy

06.11.2010 from LA Weekly
More Fun With Maps: The Great American Pizza-Guns-Strip Clubs Map

05.18.2010 from OJR: The Online Journalism Review
Mapping technology provides journalists a new medium for storytelling online

04.13.2010 from Fark.com
The Only Map a Farker will ever need

04.13.2010 from the Consumerist
Epic Map: Pizza Vs Guns vs Strippers

04.11.2010 from the Lubbock (TX) Avalanche-Journal 
Baptists' church-starting mission counts on the power of seven

03.31.2010 from Cool Infographics
The World Christianity Maps

03.28.2010 from the St. Petersburg Times
The cyberscape of Christianity (print version only - available here)

03.21.2010 from Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish at The Atlantic
Map of the Day - Mapping Christianity

03.20.2010 from Speaking of Faith Blog from American Public Media
Mapping Religion in Online Realms (or Maps of Irreverence that Tell Us Something about Our Online Selves)

03.18.2010 from GOOD Blog
The Christianity Map

03.17.2010 from The Atlantic
The Christianity Map

03.16.2010 from the New York Times' Economix Blog
The Beer Belly of America

03.11.2010 from the Rachel Maddow Blog
We're a nation of drunks

03.10.2010 from Strange Maps
"Great Party Place, Wisconsin", or: America's Beer Belly

03.09.2010 from The Chicago Sun-Times' Shiny Objects
Welcome to the Midwest - Beer Belly of America

03.06.2010 from Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish at The Atlantic
Map of the Day - The Beer Belly of America

03.05.2010 from The Consumerist
Illinois and Wisconsin Do Not Mess Around When it Comes to Drinkin'

03.03.2010 from the Riverfront Times
St. Louis Beaten in Bar Fight

03.02.2010 from FlowingData
Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores

02.11.2010 from Planning Commissioners Journal
The Beer Belly of America

01.29.2010 from Blogs of Note
Floatingsheep.org featured on Blogs of Note

01.28.2010 from Vizworld
Google's Geographies of Religion

01.27.2010 from io9.com
Digital Maps Reveal Hidden Geographies of Sex and Religion

12.24.2009 from the Lexington Herald-Leader
Where's Santa? UK Geographers find him in L.A.
(print version here and here)

12.02.2009 from The Guardian
Wikipedia's known unknowns