Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Wind motion patterns animated
Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…
Patterns of daily life in Netherlands from Above
In a similar fashion to their work in Britain from Above, CGI and…
Abstract maps of the United States
Esquire invited a handful of map-makers to represent the United States outside its…
Animation shows national migration patterns
Even Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians.…
Bird migration patterns mapped
Birds move. eBird shows us how.
Understanding patterns of bird occurrence at continental…
Mapping the drug wars in Mexico
Diego Valle-Jones maps homicides and trafficking routes in Mexico.
To unclutter the map…
Geographic connectedness via Twitter locations
Eric Fischer has mastered the art of making use of geotagged things from…
High resolution biomass map, at management scale
In 2010, NASA released a map that shows world forest heights. Robert Simmon,…
Find out what percent you are in
Accompanying an article on the variations of the wealthiest one percent, The New…
World subway paths at scale
Urban planner Neil Freeman maps the world’s subway systems to scale in a…
Map of Reddit
Reddit user Laurel Quade mapifies the wonderful world of Reddit. Each country represents…
Where people are looking for homes
In August 2006, real estate search site Trulia had 609,000 visitors. Five years…
Hand-crafted wall map of the United States
Seth Stevenson, for Slate Magazine, covers cartographer David Imus’ hand-crafted wall map, which…