Maps

Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.

Oceans absorbing heat

It keeps getting hotter on this planet, and the oceans are absorbing most…

Swing states are a relatively new thing

Here’s a fun one from the Guardian. They go over the change in…

Oil fires in Iraq seen from above

Though far away, there’s still a lot you can see, as the NASA…

Out of state, public education

Nick Strayer for the New York Times shows the flow of college freshman…

Animal migrations in animated map

The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…

Global terrain maps from Stamen

Missed this one from last month. Stamen announced the release of a whole…

Generate your own fantasy map

Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…

One-year time-lapse of Earth

Time-lapse from space by NASA: On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the…

Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present

Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…

Grid map shows shifting states

You’re likely familiar with the state grid map form used these days. Instead…

Virtual reality map to show Google Trends

More of an experiment, this VR map, by the Google Trends Lab in…

Piecing together satellite images

You might think piecing together satellite imagery is a straightforward task of lining…

Cross-country road trip at a constant 70 degrees

Road trips are fun, but it can be hard to enjoy yourself when…

Moving drought boundaries

Drought continues to trudge along. My grass is just about dead, save a…

Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years

Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…

Where people go to and from work

With an animated take on the commute map, Mark Evans shows where people…

National drug overdose epidemic

Nadja Popovich for the Guardian delves into America’s drug overdose epidemic, starting with…

Bot automatically generates maps from American Community Survey data

The American Community Survey is an ongoing survey run by the United States…