Analyzing the Evolution of the Internet

Johnson, Thienne; Acedo, Carlos; Kobourov, Stephen; Nusrat, Sabrina

Analyzing the Evolution of the Internet

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2015

Authors

Johnson, Thienne
Acedo, Carlos
Kobourov, Stephen
Nusrat, Sabrina

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Existing representations of the Internet do not provide information on why countries have a bigger Internet presence (e.g., Internet Service Providers) than others. In this paper we evaluate four geo-economic parameters (area, population, GDP and GDP per capita), looking for clues of why some areas or countries have developed earlier/ later, faster/slower than others. We use correlation studies to analyze which geo-economic variable leads to bigger development in the Internet infrastructure per continent, and cartograms to represent the growth of the Internet infrastructure around the world, in a sequence of 24 years. These representations make it possible to find interesting patterns and identify outliers.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:eurovisshort.20151123
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booktitle = {Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) - Short Papers
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editor = {E. Bertini and J. Kennedy and E. Puppo
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title = {{Analyzing the Evolution of the Internet
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author = {Johnson, Thienne and 
Acedo, Carlos and 
Kobourov, Stephen and 
Nusrat, Sabrina
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year = {2015
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publisher = {The Eurographics Association
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DOI = {10.2312/eurovisshort.20151123
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