Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State, applies his skills…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Geography of the basketball court
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Geography of government benefits
I missed this one a while back, but The New York Times had…
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Growing urban populations
In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…
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Mobile phone digital traces
In collaboration with Lift and Near Future Laboratory, Interactive Things explores digital traces…
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Wind motion patterns animated
Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…
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Really old maps online
Maps have been around for a long time, but you might not know…
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Maps with R →
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Giant globe display
Hawt. [Tokyotek via @datapointed]…
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Map your Twitter friends
You’d think that this would’ve been done by now, but this simple mashup…
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Patterns of daily life in Netherlands from Above
In a similar fashion to their work in Britain from Above, CGI and…
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Abstract maps of the United States
Esquire invited a handful of map-makers to represent the United States outside its…
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Taxi migration in Manhattan
While we’re on the topic of things moving on a map of changing…
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Animation shows national migration patterns
Even Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians.…
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Bird migration patterns mapped
Birds move. eBird shows us how.
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Mapping the drug wars in Mexico
Diego Valle-Jones maps homicides and trafficking routes in Mexico.
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Understanding Map Projections →
“a trade between distortion, accuracy, and aesthetics” [via]
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Geographic connectedness via Twitter locations
Eric Fischer has mastered the art of making use of geotagged things from…
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High resolution biomass map, at management scale
In 2010, NASA released a map that shows world forest heights. Robert Simmon,…