StateStats is like Google Insights but on a state level. Type in a…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Guess What State Searches for ‘Poo’ the Most – StateStats
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Visualization Projects from Database City – Visualizar’08
This is a guest post by Greg J. Smith, a Toronto-based designer and…
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Neighborhood Boundaries with Flickr Shapefiles
Neighborhood Boundaries by Tom Taylor uses Flickr Shapefiles and Yahoo! Geoplanet “to show…
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Facebook Friend Activity Seen Around the World
Palantir, by Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der, and Dan Weatherford of Facebook, visualizes friend…
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US Oil Doesn’t Come From Where You Think it Does
Where do you think the US imports the most oil from? Most of…
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Cotton Picking Correlates to President Picking
The U.S. election is over. The post-election analyses begin. The above map shows…
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Alternative to Cartograms Using Transparency
The thing about cartograms is that it’s hard to make out what you’re…
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Maps and Cartograms of 2008 Presidential Election
Cartograms got a lot of coverage in 2004 when Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi,…
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European Economic Weather Map – Sudden Change in Outlook
In this map from the Financial Times, the state of Europe’s economy is…
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Map Shows Newspaper Endorsements in US Presidential Election
Philip, from infochimps, maps newspaper endorsements using data from the Editor & Publisher’s…
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United States Poverty Rates From 1980 to 2007
Thousands of bloggers are taking the time to discuss a single topic today…
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Commercial Air Traffic Seen Around the World
This computer simulation (video below) by Zhaw shows worldwide commercial flights over a…
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Maps for Advocacy – Beginner’s Guide to Mapping
In a follow up to Visualizing Information for Advocacy, the Tactical Technology Collective…
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We Don’t Know Jack About the World – Alisa Miller TED Talk
Alisa Miller, President and CEO of Public Radio International, enlightens us on how…
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OneGeology Wants to Be Geological Equivalent of Google Maps
There’s lots of free geographical data about what’s going on at the surface…
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See the World Through SimCity’s Eyes – One Up On OnionMap
Michael comments, “Onionmap is nothing when compared to this Chinese site…They’ve practically mapped…
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How to Create a Real-Time Web Traffic Map for Your Site
I just released Visitr. Now you can create a real-time web traffic visualization for your own site or blog.
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Tracking Hurricane Gustav – How Hard is it Going to Hit?
Stamen has taken a step towards the concrete with their recent Hurricane Tracker…