With just five days left until Grand Theft Auto 5 is out, a…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Game map from Grand Theft Auto 5
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Where NFL quarterbacks throw
Kirk Goldsberry, known for his basketball analysis and shot charts, has applied his…
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Age of city buildings
When we think about the age of cities, it’s common to think of…
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Playgrounds for everyone →
NPR digs into accessible playgrounds, because everyone should get to play.
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Where non-English language is spoken in the US →
Dan Keating and Darla Cameron for the Washington Post mapped commonly used languages…
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Map shows illegal activity in San Francisco Chinatown, from 1885
From the David Rumsey map collection, the detailed map of San Francisco Chinatown…
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Racial dot map
Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for…
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Pangea with political boundaries
What would Pangea look like if today’s political boundaries were drawn on it?…
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BreweryMap plans your next beer road trip
BreweryMap, a Google Maps mashup and mobile app, provides two main functions. The…
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Breathing Earth
John Nelson of IDV Solutions strung together satellite imagery for dramatic animated GIFs.…
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NYPL map vectorizer
The NYPL map vectorizer turns old maps into GIS data.
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Lessons learned from mapping millions of dots
Erica Fischer, known around these parts for her dot maps, describes the lessons…
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Soccer assists mapped
Using Opta data for assists in the Premier League, Kickdex made this straightforward…
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Make your own US rivers and roads maps
Inspired by Nelson Minar’s map of US rivers, Mike Bostock demonstrates how to…
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Transit times in NYC
As more New Yorkers move farther away from Manhattan, transit times grow in…
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An eerie view of the linked city
Watch_Dogs is a video game that imagines Chicago as a city where everyone…
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Map shows how to say “beer” in Europe
Feòrag NicBhrìde provides a handy map on how to say beer in European…
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Yelp maps words used in reviews
We typically think of Yelp reviews as aggregates on a restaurant or business-specific…