I’ve never seen an episode, but if my Twitter stream has taught me…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Mad Men office floor plan
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True size of Africa
Online maps that we use for directions use the Mercator projection, and this…
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How K-12 schools in your area measure up
In collaboration with NBC News and The Gates Foundation, Ben Fry-headed Fathom Design…
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Where refugees come from
Thousands of people flee their country every year, and the travel patterns are…
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Map series of oil spill in Gulf
Everyone’s fascinated with animated graphics, which is cool, but sometimes a series of…
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Fictional map of online communities
xkcd + numbers on online communities. Need I say more? Along the same…
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Typographic maps
Cartography group Axis Maps continues their run of mapping goodness with the announcement…
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Europe geographically stereotyped
We tend to see the world in different ways, depending on what part…
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History of the Blitz bombings
In September 1940, Nazi Germany began bombing London for 76 consecutive nights in…
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Race and ethnicity mapped by block
Instead of breaking up demographics by defined boundaries, Bill Rankin uses dots to…
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The state of mapping APIs
O’Reilly Radar surveys the state of mapping APIs from old sources (like Google)…
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Evolving path of the Mississippi River
We often think of rivers as following a given path for the course…
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Where your neighbors commute to and from
Some people live in areas where a one-hour commute both ways is common,…
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Battle for Web supremacy
Blend Interactive maps points of control for the Web 2.0 Summit in the…
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Social life of Foursquare users mapped
Foursquare, the location-based social network, lets people share their location with others in…
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Mapping the moves of New York residents
A couple of months back, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show asked listeners who…
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Asteroid discoveries over past 30 years visualized
This animation by Scott Manley of the Armagh Observatory shows a beautiful view…
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Map of who owns the Arctic
Do you know who owns the Arctic? As it turns out, it’s a…