Maps

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

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…

Gun deaths since Sandy Hook

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was horrible, but there have been…

March Madness fan map

Along the same lines as their NFL fan maps, Facebook had a closer…

A new brand of cartographer

Emily Underwood on new cartographers and the growing field: Geographers have traditionally studied…

App shows what the Internet looks like

In a collaboration between PEER 1 Hosting, Steamclock Software, and Jeff Johnston, the…

Average commute times mapped

The United States Census Bureau just released county-level commute estimates for 2011, based…

SimCity 2013 is coming tomorrow

I’m not into video games, and my experience has been near zero since…

Stately: A simple map font

Add another way to make state-level choropleth maps. Stately, a project by Intridea,…

Languages of New York, via Twitter

In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James…

Map of Craigslist Missed Connections

On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…

U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale

How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…

A shroud of cold air descends on the U.S.

From NOAA, an animation showing a wave of cold during the Martin Luther…

Redrawn United States of electoral votes

Neil Freeman reimagined state boundary lines based on population. He started with an…

Mapping translations of Othello

Tom Cheesman of Swansea University, along with Kevin Flanagan and Studio NAND, dives…

Mercator map puzzle

The Mercator projection can be useful for giving directions, but when it comes…