Keith Collins for Quartz made an interactive that showed how much more daylight…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Daylight Saving Time geography
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Out-of-state gun purchasing
In states with stricter gun laws, firearms still find their way in. Based…
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The Sun in ultra-HD
Daang, NASA. Using images of the sun taken in space, NASA constructed this…
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US boundary evolution
We saw a similar video of boundary development over the centuries before, but…
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Melting Greenland
This map-centric piece from the New York Times is good. They keep refining…
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Particles swirling in the atmosphere
Gavin Schmidt shows different types of particles that swirl around in our atmosphere:…
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London Underground rent map
In a straightforward map, Jason Allen for Thrillist replaced station names on the…
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City layouts in 3-D
They look like little cardboard cutouts.
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Way more trees than previously thought, new estimates show
There are a lot of trees on this planet.
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Maps to understand tennis
Damien Saunder, a cartographer at ESRI, likes to use mapping methods to evaluate…
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Immigrant America
A dot density map showing one dot for every 20 immigrants.
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Square mile grid-ness of the United States
Named after the grid system Thomas Jefferson used to apportion land acquired through…
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Live cyber attack map
Norse monitors cyber attacks in real-time. This is their map of what’s going…
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Subway complaints by station
This map of subway complaints in Madrid isn’t geographically relevant to me, but the encoding scheme is interesting.
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Make grid maps in Python →
A quick script for squares and hexagons that outputs to SVG.
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Nuclear detonations from 1945 to present
There have been over 2,000 nuclear detonations since 1945. Orbital Mechanics mapped each…
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Mapped: Solar energy and savings if you got panels
Punch in your address. See how much you could save, based on a variety of data sources.
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Disappearing Arctic reflected in National Geographic maps
In the most recent update to their atlas coming in September, National Geographic…