Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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California water use per capita, by district
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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…
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Mapping ice layers with radar data
I don’t know exactly how much data NASA has in the bank, but…
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A century of National Geographic maps
Celebrating the 100th year of the National Geographic cartographic department, they provide a…
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3-D model to show free-climb route
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are free-climbing almost 3,000 feet up El Capitan,…
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Mapped history of how Native American land was taken
In Invasion of America, an animated map shows the loss of land.…