Do The Green Thing: eBay Black Friday Heatmap Visualisation

Posted by andyh on 04 December 2009 | View all posts | Previous | Next

A fascinating but scary heatmap data visualisation from eBay of every single eBay US shopping transaction - there were over 1 million in 33,000 different postcodes -- during the 24-hours retail frenzy of Black Friday.

PS. granted this was all second-hand stuff, but even better if they were all buying NothingTM instead ;-)

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In: black friday, heatmap, data visualization, sell, buy, Stick With What You Got, Buy NothingTM, ebay

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true, true

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andyh over 2 years ago.

Well, hopefully a decent amount of those transactions were for secondhand goods - perhaps they were buying an old thing, not a new thing? :)

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Floppy over 2 years ago.

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