Show Me The Money Of The Day: Anyone else surprised it's Chicago FTW?

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Inspired by the Facebook friendship map made by intern Paul Butler, research analyst Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrix decided to make a similar map of the date he had— accounts of the exchange of scientific collaboration around the world between 2005 and 2009.

Beauchesne explains:

"I extracted and aggregated scientific collaboration between cities all over th