Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Christian Thiemann, Follow the money: what we’ve learned from ‘Where’s George?’
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Where’s George? is a project tracking one dollar notes in the US. Put a stamp on the note, and log it on the website. Creates link between the two places where the not was logged. Provides a lot of data about how money moves around the US, therefore data about how people move around the US.
Administrative system of US: Divisions contain States contain Counties. Spatially compact hierarchical structure historically evolved with geographic determinants.
Human mobility – are these divisions spatially compact, determined by geography? How much geography is encoded in the network of money movements?
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