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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.
Shazam music recognition maps

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

Eric Fischer, known around these parts for his detailed dot maps, describes his…
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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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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.
Explorations of People Movements

A new data source gave rise to a different set of visualization projects. We see people.
Mapping Twitter demographics

MapBox, along with Gnip and Eric Fischer, mapped 3 billion tweets and a…
Geographic connectedness via Twitter locations

Eric Fischer has mastered the art of making use of geotagged things from…
Abstract maps of the United States

Esquire invited a handful of map-makers to represent the United States outside its…
World atlas of Flickr geotaggers is maptastic

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

A couple of weeks ago you saw Eric Fischer’s maps of Flickr photos…
Bus movements in San Francisco animated

Eric Fischer has been having a good bit of fun with maps lately.…
Social life of Foursquare users mapped

Foursquare, the location-based social network, lets people share their location with others in…
Mapping demographics of every block and city in America

Government data technology has felt behind the times the past few years with…
Flickr and Twitter mapped together – See Something or Say Something?

For all the maps by Eric Fischer I’ve posted, it’s amazing how little…
Rectangular subdivisions of the world

Eric Fischer, who continues his string of mapping fun and doesn’t even do…
Language communities of Twitter

Eric Fischer maps language communities on Twitter using Chrome’s open-source language detector. Each…
The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011

I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked…
10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010

Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects…