This clever chart by Lazaro Gamio shows changing interest rates set by the…
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Changing Fed projections
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Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area
It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…
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Five years from now
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal can see the future.…
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Interactive shows map projections with a face
We’ve seen faces as map projections before, but this is 63 projections on…
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Immersive digital waves to visualize nature
FLOW is an interactive art installation by Maotik that represents real-time weather data…
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Physical demo of how all maps are wrong
We’ve seen many one-off projects that show the distortions you get when you…
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A more realistic perspective of country sizes
Most of us have seen the True Size of Africa graphic that squishes…
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Working with Map Projections and Shapefiles in R
No need to settle for the mapping defaults in R. Apply map projections to show geographic data in a way most suitable for your work.
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Map projections illustrated with a face
Most people, at least those who visit sites like FlowingData, know about map…
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Impressive exploration of projection mapping
Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and…
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A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator
A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator. An illustration of the Mercator map projection using pennies. There’s some distortion.
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D3 map projections →
A collection by Jason Davies of the map projections possible with D3
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Comparing Map Projections →
Slick demo showing what projections preserve and lose
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Understanding Map Projections →
“a trade between distortion, accuracy, and aesthetics” [via]
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