The Urban Institute estimated how many people in each state gained health insurance…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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How many people might lose health insurance
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Shazam music recognition maps
Shazam is a service with an app that lets you point your phone…
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Detailed satellite view of iceberg break
Using the thermal signature, NASA provides a detailed view of the break:
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Every solar eclipse in your lifetime
The continental United States gets a total solar eclipse on August 21, so…
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Test how well you can draw the states
Chris Wilson for Time has a fun piece up that tests how well…
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Parts of America that most resemble the future
The Census Bureau released estimates for demographic breakdowns for each county — in…
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Moving ice
Ice in Antartica is in constant (very slow) motion, and as ocean waters…
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xkcd: Words in every state map
xkcd reading my mind somehow as usual. Not all state word maps are…
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Comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps Over a Year
Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…
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Melting glaciers
Glaciers at Glacier National Park in Montana are melting. Using data from the…
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Medieval fantasy city generator
Game developer Oleg Dolya made a medieval fantasy city generator. Select the size…
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Satellites from the ground
There is a 16-by-16 mile grid of big X’s in the Sonoran Desert…
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Chernoff emoji
Lazaro Gamio for Axios used Chernoff Faces that look like emojis.
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Breathing Earth of vegetation
Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…
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Life expectancy by state, against the US average
FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…
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X-Ray of the oceans
Using satellite data and spatial models, researchers estimate human influence in the ocean.…
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Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014
Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…
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California looks green again
In case you didn’t hear, California had a bit of a drought problem…