A social network… for the one dollar bill in your pocket.

Have you seen this?  www.wheresgeorge.com is an effort to track how cold hard cash is flowing across the country. You simply go to the site, enter the number of a bill into their registry, and it starts tracking. If the next recipient also tags the bill, you can watch your money flow throughout the country.

Here’s a video of why scientists are doing this… it’s a cool story of leveraging data to see how communities interact across the country.

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Have you seen this?  www.wheresgeorge.com is an effort to track how cold hard cash is flowing across the country. You simply go to the site, enter the number of a bill into their registry, and it starts tracking. If the next recipient also tags the bill, you can watch your money flow throughout the country.

Here’s a video of why scientists are doing this… it’s a cool story of leveraging data to see how communities interact across the country.

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