Following their animated and narrated visualization on political contributions over time, VisPolitics maps…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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2012 political donations mapped over time
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Sandy aftermath: Power outages and flooding →
The New York Times provides a detailed look at the Sandy aftermath, across…
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Browse elections data back to 1976 with Electionary app
Electionary, the new iPad app from TargetPoint Consulting, lets you browse national election…
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Hurricane tracker for Sandy
The New York Times has an updated version of their hurricane tracker up…
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Insisting on beautiful maps
In the Atlas of Design, published by the North American Cartographic Information Society,…
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Tracking homicides in Washington, D.C. →
In a multipart special report, The Washington Post investigated homicides in the nation’s…
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Solar energy potential, mapped in Cambridge →
Sustainable Design Lab at MIT and MoDe Studio estimated the potential hotspots for…
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State of polar bear populations
There are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world, and…
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Game: Match states on a blank map →
In case you’re interested in learning how much you suck at US state…
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Global cloud coverage
In the latest Chrome experiment, Google mapped cloud coverage around the world in…
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Bike patterns
Jo Wood, a professor of visual analytics, visualized five million bike rides using…
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Voting similarities between Netherland cities
This month the Netherlands held national elections, and now that the results are…
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Comparing Map Projections →
Slick demo showing what projections preserve and lose
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Presidential campaign stops mapped →
Emily Chow, Ted Mellnik, and Karen Yourish for The Washington Post mapped where…
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How people are connected on Facebook, by country
As part of the Stories initiative that Facebook launched yesterday, an interactive map…
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Mapping urban footprint
After identifying 129 metropolitan regions that represent 35 percent of the world’s urban…
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How NASA visualizes large datasets
Horace Mitchell, director of the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio discusses the process behind…
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Physics as a geographic map
The fictional map of physics by Bernard H. Porter in 1939 reads:
Containing…