This map makes use of data derived from an online petition focusing on Green Mountain College's decision to slaughter two oxen in the fall of 2012. The data is stored in a CartoDB table and visualized using the Torque library - also from CartoDB.
Adding a temporal element to the data illustrates how quickly the petition 'spread' via social media not only within the United States but throughout the world. Most locations in the United States are concentrated in areas of high population density, predominantly urban and within counties characterized by high educational attainment, above the U.S. national average income and with ready access to supermarkets.