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  Mapping demographics of every block and city in America

  Government data technology has felt behind the times the past few years with…
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  If We All Left to “Go Back Where We Came From”

  Imagine that those with immigrants in their family tree left the country. Almost everyone, basically.
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  Shazam music recognition maps

  Shazam is a service with an app that lets you point your phone…
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  Make your own detailed tweet maps

  Eric Fischer, known around these parts for his detailed dot maps, describes his…
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  How to Make Dot Density Maps in R

  Choropleth maps are useful to show values for areas on a map, but they can be limited. In contrast, dot density maps are sometimes better for showing distributions within regions.
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  Explorations of People Movements

  A new data source gave rise to a different set of visualization projects. We see people.
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  New York City taxi trips mapped

  While we’re on the topic of NYC taxi data, Eric Fischer for Mapbox…
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  Lessons learned from mapping millions of dots

  Eric Fischer, known around these parts for his dot maps, describes the lessons…
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  Mapping Twitter demographics

  MapBox, along with Gnip and Eric Fischer, mapped 3 billion tweets and a…
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  Abstract maps of the United States

  Esquire invited a handful of map-makers to represent the United States outside its…
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  Geographic connectedness via Twitter locations

  Eric Fischer has mastered the art of making use of geotagged things from…
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  The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011

  I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked…
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  Language communities of Twitter

  Eric Fischer maps language communities on Twitter using Chrome’s open-source language detector. Each…
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  Rectangular subdivisions of the world

  Eric Fischer, who continues his string of mapping fun and doesn’t even do…
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  10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010

  Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects…
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  Race and ethnicity mapped by block

  Instead of breaking up demographics by defined boundaries, Bill Rankin uses dots to…
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  Social life of Foursquare users mapped

  Foursquare, the location-based social network, lets people share their location with others in…
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  Bus movements in San Francisco animated

  Eric Fischer has been having a good bit of fun with maps lately.…
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  Where the tourists really flock

  A couple of weeks ago you saw Eric Fischer’s maps of Flickr photos…
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  World atlas of Flickr geotaggers is maptastic

  In a different look to the let’s-map-geotagged-photos idea, photographer Eric Fischer maps picture…