If you read the books or watched the movies, you get the sense…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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How far Frodo and Sam walked compared to real geography
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Satellite time-lapse shows changes on the ground
Since the 1970s, NASA has used satellites to take pictures of the Earth’s…
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Animated history of US county boundaries
Here’s a straightforward animation that shows US county boundaries change between 1629 and…
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A year of earthquakes
Fathom provides an interactive browser for a year of earthquakes, based on data…
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The Great Grid Map Debate of 2015
There’s been a sudden bump in grid maps lately taking the place of…
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Upward mobility and the potential for a better life
An analysis by Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Nathaniel Hendren of NBER…
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Self-printing a wall-sized world map
Dominik Schwarz wanted a big world map. A really big one that covered…
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Fashion trends seen through Google searches
Fashion trends, such as skinny jeans and Palazzo pants, can spike and fall…
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Life cycle of Earth’s carbon dioxide
The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…
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xkcd: U.S. of movie backgrounds
xkcd sectioned the United States by the background in movies. Because xkcd.…
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Really slow speed of light
The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…
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California water use per capita, by district
Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…
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Growth of urban neighborhood Wal-Mart
Maybe you saw the Wal-Mart growth map I made a while back. NPR…
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Map of global carbon emissions
Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…
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Pac-Man Google Maps
You can currently play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Just go to some location…
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Gay marriage legalized by state
Changes in gay marriage rights had changed slowly over the years, but more…
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Minimal landscape maps
Designer Michael Pecirno experiments with single-subject maps in his project Minimal Maps. No…
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Making better social media maps
Location-based data from social media can be interesting to analyze and map, but…