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How #London Looks on $GOOG v #Paintings From the 1700s: Not too different! Fun to see this timetravel on a real visit
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunning-comparison-london-using-google-street-view-centuries-old-paintings

The ten images include a few central London, including:
Westminster Abbey, 2 near Trafalgar Sq, Covent Garden Market, the Strand & Bank Jct (coordinates 51.513433°N 0.089045°W)

Other similar write-ups:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/feb/25/london-paintings-google-street-view-canaletto-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/modern-london-with-historic-paintings-2014-2 http://imgur.com/a/jdIM0

Also, from @geocodedArt :
Paintings matched to location, w/StreetView: FR, UK, IT,
US DE NL http://goo.gl/2D97Jm . Or w/mobile http://goo.gl/oRZpQw

MT @Bruce35dc The sleeping habits of #geniuses. Great #graphic shows Darwin as an outlier http://nym.ag/1xzycDl pic.twitter.com/ArW5CBmuhL

http://nymag.com/health/bestdoctors/2014/genius-sleeping-habits-2014-6

#Photos of crumbling remains of the 3rd Reich: #WWII Nazi Bunkers Stand… + Hitler’s Airport
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/hitlers-airport/358626 http://www.wired.com/2013/02/world-war-ii-bunkers-jonathan-andrew

https://twitter.com/wellbelove/status/307645205006393344

http://beckerinfo.net/bioinformatics/systems-biology/

http://imgur.com/nBTu3oi

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnypictures/ig/100-Funny-Pictures/Confusing-Florida-Ballot.htm

@geocodedArt :
@markgerstein Paintings matched to location, w/StreetView: FR, UK, IT, US DE NL http://goo.gl/2D97Jm . Or w/mobile http://goo.gl/oRZpQw

@markgerstein :
.@geocodedArt http://goo.gl/2D97Jm is a great site. I’ll use it on my next trip!

How #London Looks on $GOOG v #Paintings From the 1700s: Not too different! Fun to see this timetravel on a real visit
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunning-comparison-london-using-google-street-view-centuries-old-paintings

How #London Looks on $GOOG v #Paintings From the 1700s: Not too different! Fun to see this timetravel on a real visit
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunning-comparison-london-using-google-street-view-centuries-old-paintings

Citi #Bike Rides 9/17/2013. Great #visualization of daily #network dynamics. Neat if applicable to cellular networks
http://vimeo.com/89305412

@bffo : From @SFUBeedieDean | Software used in genetics used 2 viz global migration flows. Pretty cool.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028211/visualized/visualizing-which-countries-people-are-trying-to-get-away-from-and-where-theyre-g … CC/ @markgerstein

.@bffo @SFUBeedieDean Great example of #genomics ideas applied in another discipline!
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028211/visualized/visualizing-which-countries-people-are-trying-to-get-away-from-and-where-theyre-g … #viz

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028211/visualized/visualizing-which-countries-people-are-trying-to-get-away-from-and-where-theyre-g