Maps

Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.

Evolution of the two-party vote during past century

Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…

Mapping human development in America

In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…

A world of tweets

We’ve seen this sort of thing before, with tweets mapped and such, but…

Defining neighborhoods with map scribbles

TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods: We wanted…

The very first NYT election map

Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director of The New York Times, dug through the…

Keeping an eye on election results

All eyes here in the states will be on election results tonight, and…

Iraq War logs released by Wikileaks shed new light

This past Friday, Wikileaks released a second batch of reports on Iraq: At…

Mad Men office floor plan

I’ve never seen an episode, but if my Twitter stream has taught me…

True size of Africa

Online maps that we use for directions use the Mercator projection, and this…

How K-12 schools in your area measure up

In collaboration with NBC News and The Gates Foundation, Ben Fry-headed Fathom Design…

Where refugees come from

Thousands of people flee their country every year, and the travel patterns are…

Map series of oil spill in Gulf

Everyone’s fascinated with animated graphics, which is cool, but sometimes a series of…

Fictional map of online communities

xkcd + numbers on online communities. Need I say more? Along the same…

Typographic maps

Cartography group Axis Maps continues their run of mapping goodness with the announcement…

Europe geographically stereotyped

We tend to see the world in different ways, depending on what part…

History of the Blitz bombings

In September 1940, Nazi Germany began bombing London for 76 consecutive nights in…

Race and ethnicity mapped by block

Instead of breaking up demographics by defined boundaries, Bill Rankin uses dots to…

The state of mapping APIs

O’Reilly Radar surveys the state of mapping APIs from old sources (like Google)…