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…