Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Cynthia Brewer profile
Wired wrote a short profile for Cynthia Brewer, best known for Color Brewer,…
How basketball rebounds work
Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…
Road grid orientation in major cities
This is what you get when you group streets by their geographic orientation…
10,000 League of Legends matches, all at once
League of Legends is an online, free-to-play game that pits two teams of…
Real cities drawn as fantasy maps
Remember that time you were sitting by the fire reading The Lord of…
Hand-drawn, detailed city maps
Maps can be about a lot of things, from strictly geography and location…
Old maps overlaid on Google Maps
The British Library georeferencing project places old maps, as far back as the…
Cosmic map shows Milky Way at the edge of a supercluster
Nature highlights the research of R. Brent Tully et al, which defines a…
Segregated schools, still
The map above by MetroTrends shows the percent of white kids who attended…
Introvert’s heart mapped
Cartoonist Gemma Correll mapped the introvert’s heart, from recluse corner to the town…
Mapping plastic in the ocean
In research efforts to understand marine debris, Andres Cozar CabaƱas et al recently…
Talking Ferguson on Twitter and localness
For trending topics, Twitter likes to show an animated map of how a…
Map of military surplus distribution
With the situation in Ferguson, the New York Times mapped the distribution of…