Glaciers at Glacier National Park in Montana are melting. Using data from the…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Melting glaciers
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Medieval fantasy city generator
Game developer Oleg Dolya made a medieval fantasy city generator. Select the size…
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Satellites from the ground
There is a 16-by-16 mile grid of big X’s in the Sonoran Desert…
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Chernoff emoji
Lazaro Gamio for Axios used Chernoff Faces that look like emojis.
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Breathing Earth of vegetation
Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…
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Life expectancy by state, against the US average
FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…
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X-Ray of the oceans
Using satellite data and spatial models, researchers estimate human influence in the ocean.…
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Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014
Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…
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California looks green again
In case you didn’t hear, California had a bit of a drought problem…
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Shift in world’s night lights
NASA recently released composite images of the Earth at night based on 2016…
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New images of Earth at night
NASA just released a composite map of the world at night using satellite…
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Listen to soundtrack based on FedEx shipment tracking
FedEx (yes, the shipping company) put up an interactive piece that audiolizes a…
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National precinct map
Mapping at the precinct level of detail is tough because there isn’t a…
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Compare your commute time to others
Commuting sucks. Here’s a straightforward map to compare how much or less your…
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All major meteor showers, as seen from space
There are a lot of meteoroids circling around in space. Ian Webster visualized…
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Conflicted public opinion about global warming
Based on estimates from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, The New…
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Penrose map binning
Cartographer Daniel Huffman tried out Penrose tiling for binning in maps:
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Scale of Aleppo against Berlin and London
A lot of people around the world including myself don’t quite understand the…