Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Solar energy potential, mapped in Cambridge →
Sustainable Design Lab at MIT and MoDe Studio estimated the potential hotspots for…
State of polar bear populations →
There are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world, and…
Game: Match states on a blank map →
In case you’re interested in learning how much you suck at US state…
Global cloud coverage
In the latest Chrome experiment, Google mapped cloud coverage around the world in…
Bike patterns
Jo Wood, a professor of visual analytics, visualized five million bike rides using…
Voting similarities between Netherland cities
This month the Netherlands held national elections, and now that the results are…
Presidential campaign stops mapped →
Emily Chow, Ted Mellnik, and Karen Yourish for The Washington Post mapped where…
How people are connected on Facebook, by country
As part of the Stories initiative that Facebook launched yesterday, an interactive map…
Mapping urban footprint
After identifying 129 metropolitan regions that represent 35 percent of the world’s urban…
How NASA visualizes large datasets
Horace Mitchell, director of the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio discusses the process behind…
Physics as a geographic map
The fictional map of physics by Bernard H. Porter in 1939 reads:
Containing…
Fire forecasts across the United States →
As megafires in the Southwest are becoming the new normal, NPR reports in…
Amazon election map, based on book sales
Amazon used their book sales data to color a map red and blue.…
Most common London surnames mapped →
James Cheshire, a geography lecturer at the University College London, mapped common surnames…
State stereotypes suggested by Google
Renee DiResta got to wondering about state stereotypes, so she looked them up…
Ascii Street View →
Peter Nitsch created Ascii Street View, converting Google Street View to colored letters.…
Great Lakes currents map
Using the same tech Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas created to show wind…
Life expectancy and child poverty as a tube map
Geographers James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien visualized life expectancy in London as a…