Maps

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

Geography of incarceration

New York University graduate student Josh Begley grabbed 4,916 satellite images of prisons…

Political allegiance via wireless network SSIDs, mapped

Wireless network SSIDs in residential areas are typically left on default router names…

America Revealed on PBS

I’m not sure how I missed this, but PBS’s America Revealed, which has…

Sky map

I’m a little dense when it comes to astronomy, but I think I…

Tornado tracks

John Nelson of IDV Solutions put 56 years worth of tornadoes on a…

Image compositing in TileMill

TileMill is a tool that makes it easy to create interactive maps. Soon…

Montana can’t sleep

Help is a drug company that offers you less. Less active ingredients, less…

What is missing?

What is Missing? by Maya Lin seeks to raise awareness about the mass…

Global shipping network

Nicolas Rapp dives into the patterns and growth of worldwide shipping in a…

Neighborhood boundaries based on social media activity

Researchers at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University investigate the…

An era of human-affected Earth

Welcome to Anthropocene: Scientific concepts like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and planetary stewardship…

Minecraft server connections

I’ve never played Minecraft, but maybe this map showing live server connections means…

Extreme ice time-lapse

Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is…

Easter spending patterns in Spain, animated

The MIT SENSEable City Lab, in partnership with BBVA, visualizes spending in Spain…

Eating healthiness mapped over 24 hours

The Eatery app by Massive Health lets people snap pictures of their food…

Live flight tracking site shows crash of circling plane

Live flight tracking site FlightAware shows destinations and current routes. It’s everyday stuff…

Tracking drought in the US

NPR has a look at weekly drought figures over the past couple of…

Explore the Solar System like your backyard

Game developer Christopher Albeluhn found himself unemployed, so he started to work on…