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,…
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…
Inverse map of the United States
I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of…
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…