Maps

John Nelson from IDV Solutions explains how he uses a Microsoft Excel hack…

Leading up to the release of Super Mario Maker, which lets you create…

Mapping data is so much about subtleties. The little things add up to…

Western cities are growing but water supplies are decreasing. That’s not good. ProPublica,…

Million Base is a database of 2.2 million chess games. Steve Tung visualized…

After seeing an isochrone map drawn by Francis Galton, Peter Kerpedjiev was curious…

It’s difficult to grasp the severity of homicide around the world. Homicide Monitor…

If you read the books or watched the movies, you get the sense…

Since the 1970s, NASA has used satellites to take pictures of the Earth’s…

Here’s a straightforward animation that shows US county boundaries change between 1629 and…

Fathom provides an interactive browser for a year of earthquakes, based on data…

There’s been a sudden bump in grid maps lately taking the place of…

An analysis by Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Nathaniel Hendren of NBER…

Dominik Schwarz wanted a big world map. A really big one that covered…

Fashion trends, such as skinny jeans and Palazzo pants, can spike and fall…

The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…

xkcd sectioned the United States by the background in movies. Because xkcd.…

The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…