Maps

Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.

Counting the Christmas days with snow

Maps / Christmas, snow, Washington Post, weather

This is a fun one by Dylan Moriarty for the Washington Post. Punch…
Map of walkable neighborhoods

Maps / city, local, walking

Researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome estimated the time it takes…
Tsunami alert, because earthquake off coast of Northern California

Maps / alert, earthquake, USGS

The folks up here received one of those loud emergency alerts a few…
3-D print of John Snow cholera map

Maps / 3-D printing, ‪Alex Selby-Boothroyd, John Snow, physical

You know the John Snow map that highlights a cholera outbreak in London,…
Dot density map for election results

Maps / Economist, election

With what is now a common mapping method, The Economist used a dot…
Mapping every voter as a grain of sand

Maps / election, metaphor, Washington Post

To show the mix of votes across the country, the Washington Post used…
European night train map

Maps / Europe, train, travel

The Night Train Map is for Europeans who want to travel at night:…
Jello map as states are called

Maps / Bloomberg, election, food, physical

The Bloomberg Graphics desk is building out a jello map as states are…
Electoral vote cartogram

Maps / Bloomberg, election

The major news outlets all have electoral vote cartograms, but I appreciate Bloomberg’s…
Live map of county shifts

Maps / election, tracker, Washington Post

The Washington Post has a live county map that shows the shift towards…
Election touchscreen really deep dive by The Onion

Maps / election, humor, Onion, scale

The Onion gained access to the most granular election data yet. Technology sure…
When the polls close

Maps / election, New York Times, time

For The New York Times, June Kim, Leanne Abraham, and Maggie Astor provide…
Drying of the Aral Sea and its source rivers

Maps / Aral Sea, climate change, NPR, satellite imagery

NPR reports on the drying Central Asia water sources. The Aral Sea has…
Election ad views for Democrats and Republicans

Maps / ads, election, New York Times

For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek compared ad views per household:
To figure out…
World map of tides

Maps / Dave Taylor, tides

From Dave Taylor, this world map shows tidal ranges, from microtidal to macrotidal:…
Which campaign people donate more to, by ZIP code

Maps / donors, election, Washington Post

Using a combination of Federal Election Commission filings and voter registration, the Washington…
Micro-communities that might decide the election

Maps / election, New York Times, swing states

For NYT Opinion, Patrick Ruffini, with graphics by Quoctrung Bui and Aileen Clarke,…
Legality of abortion pills in each state

Maps / abortion, medicine, Washington Post

For the Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick and Szu Yu Chen describe the legality…

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