I really like this, not because it's an excellent quantitative presentation of the data, but because the 3D makes it really easy to visualize distances and scales.<p>Some interesting things to note:
- Amazingly, given the long history there, Europe has very clean borders and language divisions. This is obviously clear on the ground, too, but it's one of the things that continually surprises me about history. Compare China, which started off in a similar place over a relatively similar time scale.<p>- English Africa seems to have much higher internet penetration than other areas in Africa. Is this a colonial effect, or is it because African people tend to use the internet in English?<p>- There are some spikes here in unexpected places, like Reunion/Mauritius. Turkey is also more active than I would expect, and India less so.