Uploaded November 2014 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago

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Activity pattern of the NYC area for a week. The difference from the average number of tweets is shown. Activity is higher (progressively red and yellow) or lower (progressively dark and light blue) than average.

Read more: discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-exact-moment-when-new-york-office-workers-start-slacking-off

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Credit: U. França, H. Sayama, C. McSwiggen, R. Daneshvar and Y. Bar-Yam, Visualizing the “Heartbeat” of a City with Tweets. Arxiv

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