Maps

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

Rise of craft beer

The Brewers Association just released data for 2012 on craft beer production and…

Map: Vernacular across America

When you talk to different people across the United States, you notice small…

Map of London fire engine callouts

Using data from the London Fire Brigade, James Cheshire mapped 144,000 incidents in…

Geography of tweets

Twitter mapped all the geotagged tweets since 2009. There’s billions of them, so…

A quarter century of satellite imagery

In collaboration between USGS, NASA and TIME, Google released a quarter century of…

Coaches are highest paid public employees

Deadspin made a straightforward map that shows the highest paid public employee in…

Map of live Wikipedia changes

On Wikipedia, there are constant edits by people around the world. You can…

Geography of hate against gays, races, and the disabled

In a follow-up to their map of racist tweets towards Barack Obama, the…

Cicada insects out to play after 17 years

This is my first time hearing about this, probably because it only happens…

Exploration of how much geography is needed in metro maps

Terrence Fradet of Fathom Information Design ponders whether metro maps suffer or benefit…

YouTube Trends map shows most popular videos by region

I don’t know about you, but when I go to YouTube, I check…

Map shows street quality in Los Angeles

Nevermind the horrible traffic in Los Angeles, where it takes a several hours…

Fixing bus routes using mobile data

In parts of the world where there are few smartphones and GPS-enabled devices,…

History of San Francisco street names mapped

Where do street names come from? Sometimes there’s actual history behind a name,…

Shot charts show evolution of Lebron James

With the start of the NBA playoffs tomorrow, it’s worth coming back to…

Visualizing the Paris metro system

Data visualization group Dataveyes looks closer at the Paris metro system from a…

Map: Travel safety by country

As summer rolls around here on this side of the planet, CBC News…

An experimental map service using 3-D data

For the past few months, Stamen Design has been working with 3-D data…