Fashion trends, such as skinny jeans and Palazzo pants, can spike and fall…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Fashion trends seen through Google searches
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Life cycle of Earth’s carbon dioxide
The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…
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xkcd: U.S. of movie backgrounds
xkcd sectioned the United States by the background in movies. Because xkcd.…
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Really slow speed of light
The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…
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California water use per capita, by district
Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…
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Growth of urban neighborhood Wal-Mart
Maybe you saw the Wal-Mart growth map I made a while back. NPR…
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Map of global carbon emissions
Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…
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Pac-Man Google Maps
You can currently play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Just go to some location…
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Gay marriage legalized by state
Changes in gay marriage rights had changed slowly over the years, but more…
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Minimal landscape maps
Designer Michael Pecirno experiments with single-subject maps in his project Minimal Maps. No…
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Making better social media maps
Location-based data from social media can be interesting to analyze and map, but…
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Out-of-state commuters mapped
In a straightforward map, Seth Kadish shows the percentage of county residents who…
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Abortion policies, over time and by state
For a class project, Katie Kowalsky, Dylan Moriarty, and Robin Tolochko examined changes…
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Bivariate choropleth how-to
Your standard choropleth map shows geographic areas colored by a single variable. You’re…
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Girl Scout cookies differ by region
The Girl Scouts, known for their annual cookie sales, uses two bakers. These…
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Probably not a heat map
A heat map is a grid of numbers colored by value. I wrote…
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Vaccination rates for every kindergarten in California →
The New York Times mapped the vaccination rate for every kindergarten in California.…
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Your street name across the country
Here’s a fun searchable map from the New York Times. Enter a street’s…