Statistically speaking, the Global Flight Paths images are my most recognized and shared pieces of work and even more so since they went viral and media crazy over the past week. The BBC News reported over 1 million UK-based visitors had read the story on their website and over 15,000 social shares were recorded. The BBC News also tweeted this story to over 1.5 million twitter followers, which in turn retweeted the link to their many millions of followers. If anyone has a way to aggregate and quantify these tweet+retweet statistics I would be more than happy to explore.
I am currently waiting on licensing and prints information from the powers above me so please, if you are interested in using the images or wanting prints, kindly send me an email stating so! Thank you and I will try my best to get back to everyone as quick as possible.
Some other interesting stats:
- My failed ESRI MapBook submission has over 46,000 views through imgur in 3 days (Thanks reddit!)
- I received more traffic on this blog in the past week than I had in the first year running this site, with over 5,000 unique visitors in 2 days due to a combination of the BBC, reddit and slashdot.