In an update to his two-party map, political scientist David Sparks shows the…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Map shows two-party presidential shifts since 1920
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Mississippi drainage
Horace Mitchell for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio mapped the massive drainage basin that…
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Explore the stars with this interactive Star Mapper
Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, produced the ESA…
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Oceans absorbing heat
It keeps getting hotter on this planet, and the oceans are absorbing most…
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Swing states are a relatively new thing
Here’s a fun one from the Guardian. They go over the change in…
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Oil fires in Iraq seen from above
Though far away, there’s still a lot you can see, as the NASA…
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Out of state, public education
Nick Strayer for the New York Times shows the flow of college freshman…
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Animal migrations in animated map
The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…
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Global terrain maps from Stamen
Missed this one from last month. Stamen announced the release of a whole…
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Generate your own fantasy map
Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…
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One-year time-lapse of Earth
Time-lapse from space by NASA:
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the… -
Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present
Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…
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Grid map shows shifting states
You’re likely familiar with the state grid map form used these days. Instead…
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Virtual reality map to show Google Trends
More of an experiment, this VR map, by the Google Trends Lab in…
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Piecing together satellite images
You might think piecing together satellite imagery is a straightforward task of lining…
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Cross-country road trip at a constant 70 degrees
Road trips are fun, but it can be hard to enjoy yourself when…
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Moving drought boundaries
Drought continues to trudge along. My grass is just about dead, save a…
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Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years
Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…