James Cheshire, a geography lecturer at the University College London, mapped common surnames…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Most common London surnames mapped →
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State stereotypes suggested by Google
Renee DiResta got to wondering about state stereotypes, so she looked them up…
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Ascii Street View →
Peter Nitsch created Ascii Street View, converting Google Street View to colored letters.…
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Great Lakes currents map
Using the same tech Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas created to show wind…
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Life expectancy and child poverty as a tube map
Geographers James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien visualized life expectancy in London as a…
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Stop-and-frisk hotspots mapped →
WNYC mapped all street stops that resulted in the recovery of a gun,…
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The future of maps isn’t maps →
Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic on why maps aren’t the best interface all…
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Map of the underwater Internet →
Nicolas Rapp, for Fortune Magazine, mapped the underwater cables that make the global…
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A year of global cloud coverage →
Jonathan Corum for the New York Times mapped cloud coverage from April 2011…
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Beer versus church mapped →
The geographers at Floatingsheep are at it again, this time comparing tweets that…
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Stars in the zodiac constellations, from Earth and space
While we’re on the subject of stars, developer Riley Davis modeled the ones…
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An interactive view of star constellations
When we look up at the night sky to gaze at the stars,…
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Commute times in your area, mapped
When you look for a place to live, there are outside factors to…
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Endangered languages project
Google, in collaboration with Vizzuality, are trying to catalog endangered languages before they…
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World sentiment mapped, based on Wikipedia
Kalev H. Leetaru animated world sentiment over time, based on Wikipedia entries.
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Road trip planner with weather forecasts
Online maps have made it easy to find directions from point A to…
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Toronto subway map, Super Mario 3 style
Dave Delisle mapped the Toronto TTC Subway in the style of Super Mario…
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Geography of the basketball court, interactive edition
Remember geographer Kirk Goldsberry’s analysis of shot efficiency on the basketball court? Jeremy…