Maps

Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.

Name popularity by state, animated by year

Using baby name data from the Social Security Administration, Brian Rowe made this…

Your mobility at various times during the day

Isoscope, a class project by Flavio Gortana, Sebastian Kaim and Martin von Lupin,…

Detailed map of baseball fandom

For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…

Where people bike and run, worldwide

Remember those running maps I made with limited data from RunKeeper? Strava, which…

Music preference by region

Movoto mapped music preference for various genres, across the United States. We calculated…

Where nobody lives

We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of…

High-detail maps with Disser

Open data consultancy Conveyal released Disser, a command-line tool to disaggregate geographic data…

Independent coffee shops and community

As part of the You Are Here project from the MIT Media Lab,…

Regional macrobrews

FloatingSheep pointed their Twitter geography towards beer (and wine). From Sam Adams in…

Open access to 20,000 maps from NYPL

The New York Public Library announced open access to 20,000 maps, making them…

Planetary layer cake

From Cakecrumbs, a product that helps you learn while you eat: planetary layer…

Centuries of European border changes

The Centennia Historical Atlas is a program that shows you border changes in…

Smoking rates and income

Based on a study on smoking prevalence from 1996 to 2012, a map…

Reconstructing Google Streetview as a point cloud

Patricio Gonzalez Vivo, an MFA Design & Technology student, scraped depth from Google…

Level of road grid

Seth Kadish looked at the road network of several major counties and estimated…

Basketball movements visualized

The NBA has been kind of gaga over data the past few years,…

Solar time versus standard time around the world

After noting the later dinner time in Spain, Stefano Maggiolo noted relatively late…

Near-real-time global forest watch

Global Forest Watch uses satellite imagery and other technologies to estimate forest usage,…