Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Finding all of the trees in the world with machine learning
Descartes Labs used machine learning to identify all of the trees in the…
Make a figure-ground diagram using OpenStreetMap data
In visual perception, a figure-ground grouping is where you recognize an object through…
Skewed mental map of the world’s geography
The maps that we imagine as we think about locations around the world…
Street names as a proxy for history and culture
From Streetscapes by Zeit:
Street names are stories of life. They tell us…
Midterm shifts versus the 2016 election
The Guardian goes with scaled, angled arrows to show the Republican and Democrat…
Maps of the issues mentioned most in election advertising
As the midterm elections loom, the ads focusing on key issues are running…
xkcd maps 2018 midterm election challengers
Randall Munroe, Kelsey Harris, and Max Goodman for xkcd mapped all the challengers…
Graveyards of America mapped
It’s Halloween. Joshua Stevens mapped all the graveyards:
Right away I was struck…
Geography of voter turnout
Based on data from Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, The Washington…
A closer look at the U.S.-Mexico border
The Washington Post provides a flyover view of the barriers at the U.S.-Mexico…
Mapping all the buildings
A few months back, Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset that included the estimated…
Mapping predominant race block by block
Based on data from the Census Bureau, National Geographic mapped predominant race in…
Mapping opportunity for children, based on where they grew up
Opportunity Atlas, a collaboration between Opportunity Insights and the Census Bureau, is the…
Summer rain levels compared to the norms
Tim Meko and Aaron Steckelberg for The Washington Post compared this summer’s rains…
Judging connectedness of American communities, based on Facebook friendships
We talk about geographic bubbles a lot these days. Some areas are isolated,…