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  • Realtime Information Graphics Show International Data Interchange Realtime Information Graphics Show International Data Interchange

    Zum Kuckuck, a design group in Germany, visualizes data interchange and network traffic with Processing in this beautifully executed installation. On behalf and under the creative management of the Atelier…

  • Abortion Rates in the United States, 1970-2005 Abortion Rates in the United States, 1970-2005

    I've been working on my mapping skills lately in preparation for the first FlowingPrints poster, so when I came across this dataset for abortion rates in America, I had to…

  • World Map of Social Network Dominance World Map of Social Network Dominance

    Vincenzo Cosenza maps social network dominance around the world according to traffic data from Alexa and Google Trends. We see Facebook has apparently overtaken MySpace in the US along with…

  • Worldwide Obama Buzz Visualized Worldwide Obama Buzz Visualized

    In celebration of Barack Obama's 100th day as the 44th President of the United States, the MIT SENSEable City Lab visualized mobile phone activity during the historic inauguration. What we…

  • Indieprojector Makes it Easy to Map Your Geographical Data Indieprojector Makes it Easy to Map Your Geographical Data

    Axis Maps recently released indieprojector, a new component to indiemapper, their in-development mapping project to "bring traditional cartography into the 21st century." Indieprojector lets you import KML and shapefiles and…

  • Death Penalty Laws Around the World Death Penalty Laws Around the World

    With their usual flare, GOOD Magazine maps the death penalty around the world according to Amnesty International. Here we see that the philosophy varies quite a bit from country to…

  • Maps of the Seven Deadly Sins Maps of the Seven Deadly Sins

    Geographers from Kansas State University map the spatial distribution of the seven deadly sins in the United States. These types of maps are always kind of iffy as they draw…

  • Here & There: Horizonless Perspective of Manhattan Here & There: Horizonless Perspective of Manhattan

    Jack Schulze provides this horizonless view of Manhattan: Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd…

  • Is Your Country Involved in Open Source? Is Your Country Involved in Open Source?

    Red Hat, an open source leader best known for their Linux distribution, maps open source activity around the world. If you're not a developer or involved with Web-ish things, open…

  • Visualizing the United States Power Grid Visualizing the United States Power Grid

    NPR provides an in depth view of the U.S. electric grid, exploring the network, power sources, and where in the country power is coming from: The U.S. electric grid is…

  • Jobs Vanish Across Our Country Jobs Vanish Across Our Country

    As a nation, we gained jobs every month during 2007 compared to the same month one year before. However, since July of 2008, we've seen a loss in jobs nationwide,…

  • Geography of Buzz In Los Angeles and New York Geography of Buzz In Los Angeles and New York

    Elizabeth Currid (USC) and Sarah Williams (Columbia University), collaborate to map the geography of buzz in Los Angeles (above) and New York (below). The two researchers mined thousands of photos…

  • Zappos Maps Sales in Real-time Zappos Maps Sales in Real-time

    Zappos, the online shoe retailer, maps sales across the United States in real-time. We've seen this before in Twittervision and other Google Maps mashups, but the difference here is that…

  • 24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr 24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr

    Daniel Catt from Flickr maps 24 hours worth of geotagged photos (about 64,000 of them) on this animated 3-D globe (below). The project was implemented in Processing, which shouldn't come…

  • Make This Sitcom Map More Informative Make This Sitcom Map More Informative

    This map from Dan Meth displays popular sitcoms by where they took place. It's a comic and totally amusing, so there's no need to pick it apart, but let's imagine…
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