Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…
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A century of ocean shipping animated
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Growing urban populations
In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…
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Wind motion patterns animated
Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…
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Taxi migration in Manhattan
While we’re on the topic of things moving on a map of changing…
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Animation shows national migration patterns
Even Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians.…
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Bird migration patterns mapped
Birds move. eBird shows us how.
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A month of swearing in 90 seconds
A fun map by Jamie Popkin of Little Earth that animates the use…
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Five years of Kiva lending and borrowing
Kiva, the microfinance site, lets you give small loans to people around the…
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Growth of newspapers across the United States
The Rural West Initiative and the Bill Lane Center for the American West…
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US post offices spreading over time, 1700 to 1900
Using data from the USPS Postmaster Finder and the USGS Geographic Names Information…
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iPhone fireflies across the Europen sky
A few months ago there was a lot of hoopla around the iPhone…
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Anatomy of a computer virus explained
Motion designer Patrick Clair tells the story of Stuxnet, “a Microsoft Windows computer…
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Where the water resources are and where they go
Designer David Wicks compares rainfall against water consumption in his thesis project Drawing…
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Animation: The pain that is Los Angeles traffic
Los Angeles has a lot of things to do. The trouble is, compared…
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History of the world in 100 seconds, according to Wikipedia
As you know, the world wasn’t always how you know it today. Land…
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Global Android activations mapped and animated
iPhone gets all the glory, but there are plenty of Android phones activated…
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Haiti’s earthquake in context
Haiti’s earthquake in 2010 was by far the most devastating in a long…
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Epic animation in Google Docs
For the Google Demo Slam, three animators Tu+, Namroc, and Metcalf Anything put…
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Watching the Growth of Walmart
The ever so popular Walmart growth map gets an update, and yes, it still looks like a wildfire. Sam’s Club follows soon after, although not nearly as vigorously.
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Mapping and Animating Growth of Target Across United States
After I produced a map that shows the growth of Walmart, there were…
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