Using anonymized cell phone data from Here Technologies, Sahil Chinoy for The Washington…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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How far you can drive out of the city in one hour
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Where North Korea can reach with its missiles
Troy Griggs and Karen Yourish for The New York Times mapped the estimated…
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Perception of neighborhoods through Airbnb ratings
Beñat Arregi made a series of Airbnb maps with a simple premise. If…
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Music preference geography
Travel to different parts of the country, and you hear different types of…
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Interactive shows map projections with a face
We’ve seen faces as map projections before, but this is 63 projections on…
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Boeing draws a plane in the sky with flight path
In a test flight, Boeing took the thing where you draw using your…
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Flow of goods between states
Using data from the Freight Analysis Framework, Chris Canipe for Axios mapped the…
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Google Trends eclipse interest
I feel like the large-volume coverage of the upcoming eclipse doesn’t quite match…
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Satellite view of the upcoming eclipse’s path
In case you didn’t hear, a solar eclipse is on the way that…
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How many people might lose health insurance
The Urban Institute estimated how many people in each state gained health insurance…
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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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Detailed satellite view of iceberg break
Using the thermal signature, NASA provides a detailed view of the break:
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Every solar eclipse in your lifetime
The continental United States gets a total solar eclipse on August 21, so…
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Test how well you can draw the states
Chris Wilson for Time has a fun piece up that tests how well…
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Parts of America that most resemble the future
The Census Bureau released estimates for demographic breakdowns for each county — in…
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Moving ice
Ice in Antartica is in constant (very slow) motion, and as ocean waters…
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xkcd: Words in every state map
xkcd reading my mind somehow as usual. Not all state word maps are…
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Comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps Over a Year
Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…