Based on estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Republicans’ health care plan compared against Obamacare
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Bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers
Ken Schwencke and Al Shaw from ProPublica with a set of straightforward maps…
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Bill Paxton tribute through storm spotters’ GPS coordinates
Bill Paxton, who played a storm chaser in Twister, died on Sunday. To…
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Oil and gas wells in the United States
Tim Meko and Laris Karklis for The Washington Post take a dive into…
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xkcd: Projecting country borders by time zone
Time zones are odd sometimes.…
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One square mile in different cities
As part of his dissertation, Geoff Boeing generated these maps that show one…
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Mixing cartography and landscape drawing
Artist Matthew Rangel hikes cross-country and through the mountains, exploring and drawing along…
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Balloon maps
There was a time when the best way to get a view from…
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Going local on gun violence
Sometimes data can look really noisy when you zoom in close, and so…
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Giant map for inauguration planning
In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…
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Change in rain, 2016
In some areas of the United States it poured down rain, which caused…
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Looking for America’s heartland
By definition, heartland is some central place of importance of a country. But…
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U.S. culture through TV show geography
Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
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Where people use certain words
Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…
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Map of New York City shadows
Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…
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Following the carbon dioxide
This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…
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Listen to radio around the globe
Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says.…
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Houston flooding on the rise
Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…