Gas prices are high across the U.S., more so in some places than in others. (Hello from California.) The New York Times has an interactive map of the average price by county. It loads initially by state and then you can zoom in for more details.
I think this is a riff on an older NYT map of the same data and structure, but I couldn’t find it. Maybe it was of temperature?
Either way, I’m a fan of maps that show the data directly through text. See also: most popular resident of every city, midterm challengers, the United States of surnames, London surnames, and how online daters describe themselves.
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
