Google recaps search trends for the year in Google Zeitgeist 2010, from the…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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How the world searched in 2010
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The United States of Autocomplete
Very Small Array has some fun with Google’s autocomplete. Utah… Jazz. Kentucky… Fried…
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Awards from Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Between February 17, 2009 to September 30, 2010, 88,791 awards have been funded…
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Evolution of the two-party vote during past century
Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…
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Mapping human development in America
In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…
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A world of tweets
We’ve seen this sort of thing before, with tweets mapped and such, but…
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Defining neighborhoods with map scribbles
TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods:
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The very first NYT election map
Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director of The New York Times, dug through the…
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Keeping an eye on election results
All eyes here in the states will be on election results tonight, and…
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Iraq War logs released by Wikileaks shed new light
This past Friday, Wikileaks released a second batch of reports on Iraq:
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Mad Men office floor plan
I’ve never seen an episode, but if my Twitter stream has taught me…
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True size of Africa
Online maps that we use for directions use the Mercator projection, and this…
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How K-12 schools in your area measure up
In collaboration with NBC News and The Gates Foundation, Ben Fry-headed Fathom Design…
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Where refugees come from
Thousands of people flee their country every year, and the travel patterns are…
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Map series of oil spill in Gulf
Everyone’s fascinated with animated graphics, which is cool, but sometimes a series of…
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Fictional map of online communities
xkcd + numbers on online communities. Need I say more? Along the same…
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Typographic maps
Cartography group Axis Maps continues their run of mapping goodness with the announcement…
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Europe geographically stereotyped
We tend to see the world in different ways, depending on what part…