Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Interactive Islands of Mankind
Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…
A century of ocean shipping animated
Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…
Explore Geographic Coverage in Mapping Wikipedia
TraceMedia, in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, maps language use across Wikipedia…
Rising Water Levels in the Immediate Future
Stamen Design, in collaboration with Climate Central, shows major areas that could be…
Live Wind Map Shows Flow Patterns
I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg…
Perpetual Ocean
Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean,…
What News Sites People are Reading, by State
Jon Bruner of Forbes, in collaboration with Hilary Mason and Anna Smith of…
Visualizing the History of Everything
Big History is a field of study that crosses multiple disciplines such as…
Comparing heritage in the Melting Pot
At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your…
Geography of the basketball court
Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State, applies his skills…
Growing urban populations
In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…
Mobile phone digital traces
In collaboration with Lift and Near Future Laboratory, Interactive Things explores digital traces…