Sunrises are beautiful . The optics of light bending and scattering through out air , producing layers of fat red spark pass up to pallid blue can be an fear - inspiring start to the twenty-four hour period . And people love to talk about it .
This mapcollects anygeotagged Tweets that let in the word sunrise from April 6th , 2014then lay them out on a map hunt the move border between dark and light on our planet . Predictably , a surge of tweet chases the retirement of dark . More circumstantially , the tweet also clump along the sundown - bounds , as light slice to black-market . I wonder how many languages partake a vulgar password for dayspring and sunset , blurring the phenomena into a twice - a - mean solar day event ?
chatter over here for the animate mapwhere you could ascertain sunrise progress with respect to the day - night round , zoom in to areas of pastime , and all that jazz . I find it particularly mirthful to see find the extreme early - riser pipe celebrating a pre - dawn start to the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , or what are inevitably ironic comment on rising at the crack of noontide .
The map was create by the Twitter data visual image team using the CartoDB mapping organization . This is n’t the first collaboration between the two — Twitter uses CartoDB so frequently to represent how hashtags move around their scheme that they ’re listed in the fount studies example section .
Tip viaDr Rebecca Williams @Volcanologist . For more scientific discipline - centric cuteness , here ’s one highlighting theSoyuz garden rocket , and apeek at a sunset from place .
Sunrise on the Soyuz Rollout
Atmospheric Layers at Sunset
For a far more serious use of track hashtag spread , here ’s a look at how#BringBackOurGirls spreadafter theApril 15th mass kidnapping .
Harsh Reality Break : 234 girl abduct from Physics Test ( Updated )
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