Maps

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

California water use per capita, by district

Maps / drought, New York Times

Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…
Growth of urban neighborhood Wal-Mart

Maps / NPR, Wal-Mart

Maybe you saw the Wal-Mart growth map I made a while back. NPR…
Map of global carbon emissions

Maps / environment, Washington Post

Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…
Pac-Man Google Maps

Maps / April Fool's, Google Maps, Pac-Man

You can currently play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Just go to some location…
Gay marriage legalized by state

Maps / gay marriage, New York Times

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

Maps / agriculture, USDA

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

Maps / Floatingsheep, Twitter

Location-based data from social media can be interesting to analyze and map, but…
Out-of-state commuters mapped

Maps / commute

In a straightforward map, Seth Kadish shows the percentage of county residents who…
Abortion policies, over time and by state

Maps / abortion

For a class project, Katie Kowalsky, Dylan Moriarty, and Robin Tolochko examined changes…
Bivariate choropleth how-to

Maps / choropleth, guide, Joshua Stevens

Your standard choropleth map shows geographic areas colored by a single variable. You’re…
Girl Scout cookies differ by region

Maps / cookies, Girl Scouts

The Girl Scouts, known for their annual cookie sales, uses two bakers. These…
Probably not a heat map

Maps / heatmap

A heat map is a grid of numbers colored by value. I wrote…
Vaccination rates for every kindergarten in California →

Maps / New York Times, vaccination

The New York Times mapped the vaccination rate for every kindergarten in California.…
Your street name across the country

Maps / New York Times, streets

Here’s a fun searchable map from the New York Times. Enter a street’s…
Mapping ice layers with radar data

Maps / ice, NASA, weather

I don’t know exactly how much data NASA has in the bank, but…
A century of National Geographic maps

Maps / history, National Geographic

Celebrating the 100th year of the National Geographic cartographic department, they provide a…
3-D model to show free-climb route

Maps / 3-d, climbing, New York Times

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are free-climbing almost 3,000 feet up El Capitan,…
Mapped history of how Native American land was taken

Maps / history, land

In Invasion of America, an animated map shows the loss of land.…

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