MailChimp Email Marketing Blog » spam graph http://blog.mailchimp.com MailChimp, email marketing, and monkeys! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:04:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Spamology – Spam Visualization Projecthttp://blog.mailchimp.com/spamology-spam-visualization-project/ http://blog.mailchimp.com/spamology-spam-visualization-project/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:31:52 +0000 Ben http://blog.mailchimp.com/spamology-spam-visualization-project/ Spamology is an interesting data visualization project, where the artist uses keyword frequency from spam to form a little miniature city. The more frequent the keywords, the higher and higher they stack. Before you go looking for the “Viagra” skyscraper and the “Rolex” tower, it’s common words (like “with”) that appear the most.

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Click “i” for instructions on how to navigate around this little city.
Know what’s creepy about it? The city has an uncanny resemblance to Lagos, Nigeria:

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