To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Internet under the sea
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Inverse map of the United States
I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of…
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Stacked bus routes on a map
Speaking of 3-D usage on maps, here’s a map of bus routes in…
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Segregation compared during work and at home
Based on commuting data from the Census Bureau, researchers Matthew Hall, John Iceland,…
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Opportunity rover’s path on Mars
After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission…
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Average view of Earth from space
Using a year’s worth of daily images from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer…
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Inside out map of the Grand Canyon
John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better:…
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One-year time-lapse of the weather
Along the same lines as last week’s one-year wind time-lapse, Weather Decoded provides…
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Time-lapse of all the wind in 2018
Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map…
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Vintage map with modern 3-D elevation
This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes…
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Finding all of the trees in the world with machine learning
Descartes Labs used machine learning to identify all of the trees in the…
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Make a figure-ground diagram using OpenStreetMap data
In visual perception, a figure-ground grouping is where you recognize an object through…
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Population mountains
You’ve seen the maps of population density. You’ve seen the jokes. But you…
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Skewed mental map of the world’s geography
The maps that we imagine as we think about locations around the world…
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Book of hand-painted ski maps
When you go skiing or snowboarding, you get a map of the mountain…
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Where Camp fire destroyed homes
The Camp fire death toll rose to 63 and 631 missing as of…
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Street names as a proxy for history and culture
From Streetscapes by Zeit:
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Midterm shifts versus the 2016 election
The Guardian goes with scaled, angled arrows to show the Republican and Democrat…