We often think of communities in the framework of government-set boundaries, but relationships…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Community connections via SMS and phone call data
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Flickr and Twitter mapped together – See Something or Say Something?
For all the maps by Eric Fischer I’ve posted, it’s amazing how little…
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The History of Cartography →
Complete Volume 1 from 1987, available for free
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In pursuit of the American dream (house)
Trulia Insights sure has been having fun lately. In their most recent dig…
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Trulia Crime Map helps you find safe living places
Real estate site Trulia made a great move when they acquired mapping outfit…
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How we describe ourselves, according to online dating profiles
The traditional way to gauge who we are as a country, state, or…
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Find everywhere you can go in 15 minutes or less
A lot of the time when making plans to meet up with friends…
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11.3m player deaths visualized in point cloud
Sometimes visualizing everything can turn out beautiful results. It seems to work especially…
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A deadly year of tornadoes
As reported by The New York Times, the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, known…
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Geography of hate
Richard Florida for The Atlantic takes a closer look at hate groups in…
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Super detailed map of the skies
The title just about says it all:
The Photopic Sky Survey is a… -
Global search volume by language
To show off their new toy that is WebGL, a 3D graphics API…
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Stats of the Union tells health stories in America
Stats of the Union, the new Fathom-produced iPad app, maps the status of…
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One man’s travel patterns – Atlas of the Habitual
FInding himself in a new town, with a new job, Tim Clark started…
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Art, science, and cartography
Similar discussions going on in the cartography branch among UW Madison geography folks.…
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How long it takes for house prices to drop
Shopping for a house? Sometimes it can be advantageous to wait a while,…
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Map your location – that your iPhone secretly records
Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden have found that the iPhone records cell…
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Rings of population change by block
You’ve seen population changes at the state and county level, but with Census…