John Nelson of IDV Solutions put 56 years worth of tornadoes on a…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Tornado tracks
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Image compositing in TileMill
TileMill is a tool that makes it easy to create interactive maps. Soon…
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Montana can’t sleep
Help is a drug company that offers you less. Less active ingredients, less…
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What is missing?
What is Missing? by Maya Lin seeks to raise awareness about the mass…
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Global shipping network
Nicolas Rapp dives into the patterns and growth of worldwide shipping in a…
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Neighborhood boundaries based on social media activity
Researchers at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University investigate the…
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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…
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Extreme ice time-lapse
Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is…
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Easter spending patterns in Spain, animated
The MIT SENSEable City Lab, in partnership with BBVA, visualizes spending in Spain…
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Eating healthiness mapped over 24 hours
The Eatery app by Massive Health lets people snap pictures of their food…
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Live flight tracking site shows crash of circling plane
Live flight tracking site FlightAware shows destinations and current routes. It’s everyday stuff…
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Tracking drought in the US
NPR has a look at weekly drought figures over the past couple of…
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Explore the Solar System like your backyard
Game developer Christopher Albeluhn found himself unemployed, so he started to work on…
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Interactive Islands of Mankind
Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…
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A century of ocean shipping animated
Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…
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Metal bands per capita
By Reddit user depo_, this map showing metal bands per capita around the…
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Explore Geographic Coverage in Mapping Wikipedia
TraceMedia, in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, maps language use across Wikipedia…