Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps Over a Year
Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…
Medieval fantasy city generator
Game developer Oleg Dolya made a medieval fantasy city generator. Select the size…
Chernoff emoji
Lazaro Gamio for Axios used Chernoff Faces that look like emojis.
This visualization…
Breathing Earth of vegetation
Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…
Life expectancy by state, against the US average
FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…
X-Ray of the oceans
Using satellite data and spatial models, researchers estimate human influence in the ocean.…
Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014
Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…
Shift in world’s night lights
NASA recently released composite images of the Earth at night based on 2016…
New images of Earth at night
NASA just released a composite map of the world at night using satellite…
Listen to soundtrack based on FedEx shipment tracking
FedEx (yes, the shipping company) put up an interactive piece that audiolizes a…
Compare your commute time to others
Commuting sucks. Here’s a straightforward map to compare how much or less your…
All major meteor showers, as seen from space
There are a lot of meteoroids circling around in space. Ian Webster visualized…
Conflicted public opinion about global warming
Based on estimates from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, The New…
Penrose map binning
Cartographer Daniel Huffman tried out Penrose tiling for binning in maps:
A Penrose…