Gist 8393659

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Last edited Jan 13, 2014

Created on Jan 13, 2014

This example maps the geographic distribution of Twitter users who attended both PennApps and MHacks hackathons. It plots each user’s approximate location as a small circle on a U.S. map, with the screen name labeled beside each point. The visualization uses `d3.forceSimulation` to adjust label positions and prevent overlap, while `d3.geoPath` renders the state boundaries from GeoJSON data. User coordinates come directly from the included `accepters_both_at_pennapps_and_mhacks.geojson` file, which stores point features with latitude and longitude values.

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