In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Giant map for inauguration planning
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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…
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Random states of America show changing election outcomes
Geography and state borders play a big part in how elections play out…
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New region boundaries based on commutes
Geographers Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson used commuting data from the American Community…
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Physical demo of how all maps are wrong
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Detailed time-lapse of everywhere on Earth
A few years back, Google released a time-lapse feature in Google Earth that…
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American infrastructure mapped
I can always find time to enjoy me some minimal maps. Tim Meko…
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Increasing diversity
Dan Keating and Laris Karklis for The Washington Post map the change in…
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What $100 buys in each state
A hundred bucks in one state doesn’t always get you the same thing…
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Dialect book of maps
In 2013, Josh Katz put together a dialect quiz that showed where people…
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Peaks and valleys of presidential support
This is some fine map work by Lazaro Gamio and Dan Keating for…