Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Interactive Islands of Mankind
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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…
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8-bit Google Maps, Start Your Quest
If you go to Google Maps right now, there’s an option in the…
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How Much More Women Pay for Health Insurance
So the Obama campaign posted this yesterday. Discuss.…
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Rising Water Levels in the Immediate Future
Stamen Design, in collaboration with Climate Central, shows major areas that could be…
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Live Wind Map Shows Flow Patterns
I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg…
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Perpetual Ocean
Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean,…
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What News Sites People are Reading, by State
Jon Bruner of Forbes, in collaboration with Hilary Mason and Anna Smith of…
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Custom Woodcut Maps
Just choose the location you want via the Google Maps interface, pick what…
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Watercolor Map Tiles
A couple of years ago, when you thought about online interactive maps, what…
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Visualizing the History of Everything
Big History is a field of study that crosses multiple disciplines such as…
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Comparing heritage in the Melting Pot
At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your…
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Geography of the basketball court
Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State, applies his skills…
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Geography of government benefits
I missed this one a while back, but The New York Times had…
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Growing urban populations
In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…
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Mobile phone digital traces
In collaboration with Lift and Near Future Laboratory, Interactive Things explores digital traces…