Maps

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

Map of the most popular people replacing the cities they lived in

For The Pudding, Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg used Wikipedia pageviews to replace…

New abortion restrictions by state, since 2011

For FiveThirtyEight, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Gus Wezerek categorized and mapped new abortion restrictions…

Mapping politically polarized cities

Rachael Dottle, for FiveThirtyEight, looked for political differences in cities and ranked them,…

Inverted world map

Frans Block wondered what the world would look like if water and land…

Maps of natural disasters and extreme weather

For The Washington Post, Tim Meko mapped floods, tornados, hurricanes, extreme temperatures, wildfires,…

Where the IRS most likely audits

Using estimates from a study on regional bias in tax audits, ProPublica mapped…

Mapping the cheapest flights to everywhere, given your location

Sometimes you really do need to get away. Escape, part search engine and…

Robocalls map

Other than calls from my wife, I can’t even remember the last call…

Internet under the sea

To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under…

Inverse map of the United States

I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of…

Stacked bus routes on a map

Speaking of 3-D usage on maps, here’s a map of bus routes in…

Segregation compared during work and at home

Based on commuting data from the Census Bureau, researchers Matthew Hall, John Iceland,…

Opportunity rover’s path on Mars

After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission…

Average view of Earth from space

Using a year’s worth of daily images from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer…

Inside out map of the Grand Canyon

John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better:…

One-year time-lapse of the weather

Along the same lines as last week’s one-year wind time-lapse, Weather Decoded provides…

Time-lapse of all the wind in 2018

Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map…

Vintage map with modern 3-D elevation

This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes…