Maps

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

All of LeBron James’ career points, animated by season

Maps / basketball, Kirk Goldsberry, LeBron James, Vanna Bushong

All The King’s Buckets. pic.twitter.com/lzIultYSee
— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) February 8, 2023

LeBron…
Wonders of Google Street View

Maps / Google Streetview, Neal Agarwal, wonder

You know those funny or weird screenshots from Google Street View that enter…
Unreturned Native American remains, mapped

Maps / history, Native American, ProPublica

A law was passed in 1990 that allowed Native American tribes to request…
Barely a map of the west coast

Maps / coastline, Peter Gorman

Barely Maps is an ongoing project by Peter Gorman that shows geographic data…
Snow cover mapped using snowflakes

Maps / Althea Archer, R, snow, USGS

To show snow cover across the United States, Althea Archer for the USGS…
Origins of the world map

Maps / history, Jeremy Shuback

Mapping the entire planet is not exactly a straightforward thing to do, especially…
Mapping the sea floor

Maps / Jon Keegan, nature, ocean, USGS

Jon Keegan on how USGS researchers collected data for 125 square miles of…
Apply your daylight saving preferences to the rest of the country

Maps / daylight saving, FiveThirtyEight

We like to complain about changing time an hour back or forward, and…
Carbon footprint in the city versus the suburbs

Maps / carbon, New York Times, pollution

Bringing it down the Census tract level, Nadja Popovich, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad…
Asteroid simulator for before the big one hits

Maps / asteroids, Neal Agarwal, simulation

Knowing the impact of an asteroid falling in your city might not seem…
Depth of the underwater Tonga volcano

Maps / 3-D, ABC News, Tonga, volcano

Mark Doman and Alex Palmer, for ABC News, show the depth of the…
$300b World Cup seen through satellite imagery

Maps / Bloomberg, Qatar, satellite imagery, World Cup

Qatar spent $300 billion with a ‘b’ over the past twelve years to…
Chance of rain and election turnout

Maps / election, forecast, New York Times, weather

There’s rain in the forecast tomorrow in some areas of the United States,…
Geographic misconceptions about the location of continents

Maps / geography, John Nelson, mistakes

When you’re used to looking at the world through a certain lens, such…
Slow internet for the same price as fast internet

Maps / income, Internet, The Markup

When you pay for internet, it seems like a reasonable expectation that if…
All the elections where you live

Maps / elections, midterm, USAFacts

We tend to talk about elections as this uniform thing. People vote for…
Future monsoon patterns

Maps / monsoon, New York Times, rain

The monsoon season in South Asia brings water to the people and land,…
China’s fishing patterns shift globally

Maps / China, fishing, New York Times

China’s fish supply is running low along its own coast, so they’ve shifted…

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