Your Code as a Crime Scene, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Expand Your Mental Maps with Social Data

Throughout the book, you have applied geographical offender profiling based on the idea that just as you can spot patterns in the movement of criminals, your version-control data lets you do the same with code. Another aspect of this for you to know is that the movement of offenders is constrained by a concept called mental maps.

A mental map is the subjective view of a specific geographic area. Mental maps deviate from how a real map would look. For example, geographical hindrances such as highways and rivers can constrain and skew the perception of an area. In the small town where I grew up, it took me years to venture across the heavily trafficked road that cut through the city. As a consequence, my ...