Maps

An analysis by Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Nathaniel Hendren of NBER…

Dominik Schwarz wanted a big world map. A really big one that covered…

Fashion trends, such as skinny jeans and Palazzo pants, can spike and fall…

The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…

xkcd sectioned the United States by the background in movies. Because xkcd.…

The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…

Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…

Maybe you saw the Wal-Mart growth map I made a while back. NPR…

Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…

You can currently play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Just go to some location…

Changes in gay marriage rights had changed slowly over the years, but more…

Designer Michael Pecirno experiments with single-subject maps in his project Minimal Maps. No…

Location-based data from social media can be interesting to analyze and map, but…

In a straightforward map, Seth Kadish shows the percentage of county residents who…

For a class project, Katie Kowalsky, Dylan Moriarty, and Robin Tolochko examined changes…

Your standard choropleth map shows geographic areas colored by a single variable. You’re…

The Girl Scouts, known for their annual cookie sales, uses two bakers. These…

A heat map is a grid of numbers colored by value. I wrote…