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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The World, Mapped by Phone

Calls Who you gonna call? Relatives in Mexico.

Kathy Gilsinan

The Atlantic - Nov 4 2014

What does global communication look like? One way to picture it is by mapping phone calls—specifically where they're coming from and heading to. The map below, first flagged by my colleague Tim Fernholz at Quartz, shows a year's worth of cross-border calls, as measured in minutes per person spent on international phone calls in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available. It's one component of a study, written by business scholars Pankaj Ghemawat and Steven A. Altman, with funding from the logistics firm DHL, that aims to quantify globalization by tallying up measures of "cross-border flows of trade, capital, information, and people."


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