Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Map shows two-party presidential shifts since 1920
In an update to his two-party map, political scientist David Sparks shows the…
Mississippi drainage
Horace Mitchell for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio mapped the massive drainage basin that…
Explore the stars with this interactive Star Mapper
Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, produced the ESA…
Swing states are a relatively new thing
Here’s a fun one from the Guardian. They go over the change in…
Out of state, public education
Nick Strayer for the New York Times shows the flow of college freshman…
Animal migrations in animated map
The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…
Global terrain maps from Stamen
Missed this one from last month. Stamen announced the release of a whole…
Generate your own fantasy map
Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…
Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present
Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…
Grid map shows shifting states
You’re likely familiar with the state grid map form used these days. Instead…
Virtual reality map to show Google Trends
More of an experiment, this VR map, by the Google Trends Lab in…
Piecing together satellite images
You might think piecing together satellite imagery is a straightforward task of lining…
Cross-country road trip at a constant 70 degrees
Road trips are fun, but it can be hard to enjoy yourself when…
Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years
Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…