Thursday, 3 July 2014

Killer Graph - Mapamation


Today's post is a special post to celebrate World UFO day, which was on 2 July, and US Independence Day on 4 July - a day that Will Smith has ensured will forever be affiliated with aliens and spaceships.

Rather than tell a story, I'm just going to let the picture do the talking.

Picture - Reported UFO Sightings*
By location and shape
                             Sources: Infochimps; Google; Wikipedia; TomBilston
                             * Some reports excluded due to lack of information

Each figure represents the shape of UFO that was reported

*  - Light               ▲ - Triangle             ☒ - Cone                ✡ - Fireball      
▆ - Rectagle          ⊕ - Sphere               O - Disc                 ◆ - Diamond        
^ - Chevron           △ - Delta                 ● - Oval                = - Cylinder
e - Egg                   ? - Unknown or uncategorised

Each letter marker represents a select defence base

A - Edwards           B - Elgin               C - Fairchild             D - Nellis
E - Pope                 F - Lewis

Colours are random

I'd also like to encourage anybody to leave a comment if they are especially interested in me honing in on a specific region or would like me to add a marker for for a certain point of interest

Next post, let's move away from UFOs. And back to some machine learning. 


1 comment:

  1. I'd like you to hone in on the South.

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