Grid Map

Instead of using geographic boundaries, same-size cells are used to represent areas to provide equal visual attention to all.

Tutorials and Guides

Examples

McDonald’s Locations vs. Golf Courses

There are thousands of McDonald's locations, but there are still more golf courses in the United States. This seems surprising, but some maps make it clear.

Snow cover mapped using snowflakes

To show snow cover across the United States, Althea Archer for the USGS…

Google Maps incorrectly pointing people to crisis pregnancy centers

Davey Alba and Jack Gillum, for Bloomberg, found that Google Maps commonly points…

Full scope of gun deaths in the U.S.

As I’m sure you know, mass shootings, which gain attention because the scale…

Pollution by the rich versus poor

Based on estimates from the World Inequality Lab, Bloomberg shows how wealthier individuals’…

Abortion restrictions in the U.S. mapped

For FiveThirtyEight, Anna Wiederkehr and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, with illustrations by Nicole Rifkin, delve…

Congressmen who enslaved people

Using old Census records and documents, Julie Zauzmer Weil, Adrian Blanco and Leo…

Mapping the probable heat around the world

Earth is getting warmer, and the previously abstract concept seems to grow more…

Olympic medal tracker

The Bloomberg medal tracker is fun to look at. I think the graphics…

Four types of people who prevent full vaccination

The United States vaccination rate was rolling for a while there, but it…

1 in 5 prisoners had Covid-19, a grid map

The Marshall Project and The Associated Press report on the Covid-19 rates in…

Where there are hospital staff shortages

Reporting for NPR, Sean McMinn and Selena Simmons-Duffins on staffing shortages: On data…

How to vote in each state

Each state is handling mail-in voting in a certain way with varying timelines…

Where Your Job is Most Popular

Some jobs are common nationwide, because they are needed everywhere. Others are more specific to geography. See where job falls on the spectrum.

Most Uniquely Popular Job in Each State

These are the jobs in each state that are most specific to the place.

Grid map variations

Grid maps are a useful way to show state-level data, as they give…