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