For whatever reason, this map got picked up by news wires just in time for Halloween. The site it was hosted on was visualizing.org which no longer exists. We'll get back to that in a minute.
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Johnathan Hull had a site, Johnathan-Hull.com, which also no longer exists. He also had a Tumblr, Twitter, and Flickr accounts. All these no longer exist as well. They all vanished sometime around the first half of 2015.
So now let's talk about Visualizing.org. It was founded in 2010 as a venture between GE and Seed Media Group. It provided tools for users to upload datasets and produce interesting web-based visualizations of that data. There was much talk about open data, and bringing dataviz to Generation Remix.
Visualizing.org's twitter account is still active. Their last tweet was March 2015, announcing the winner of their latest contest.
Archive.org's last successful crawl was July 9, 2015. By July 15, there is only a "Visualizing is currently down for site maintenance" message. It never comes back.
Nowhere on the site is any indication of an impending shutdown, but active updates like "Visualizing Highlights" and the challenges stopped early in 2015.
It's hard to judge how active the site was before its demise from what archive.org captured. I couldn't find any talk about the site's […]
Seed Media Group was founded by Adam Bly. It started as Seed Magazine in 2001, which continued publishing print magazines until 2009 and then carried on publishing articles on its website until finally stopping in 2012.
Seed Magazine stopped because around that time Adam was getting […]
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His portfolio goes back to July 2015. It's definitely the same guy, but as far as I can tell none of his current socials mention the devil map.
Archive.org's last successful crawl was July 9, 2015. By July 15, there is only a "Visualizing is currently down for site maintenance" message. It never comes back.
It's hard to judge how active the site was before its demise from what archive.org captured. I couldn't find any talk about the site's […]
Seed Magazine stopped because around that time Adam was getting […]