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    District Mobility

    The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) of Washington DC manages and maintains transportation infrastructure. In the district, many commuters use public transport instead of a personal...
    www.districtmobility.org
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    Mapping how the United States generates its electricity

    President Trump signed in March orders to reverse the previous administration’s energy policies, a move that he framed as “an end to the war on coal” and that comes amid a drop in the fuel’s use....
    www.washingtonpost.com
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    Istanbul Urban Database

    Istanbul Urban Database is an ongoing digital humanities project, digitizing and visualising the historic urban archives of Istanbul.
    www.istanbulurbandatabase.com
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  • Medium

    #tagsandthecity

    #tagsandthecity renames subway stations after the Instagram hashtag which is most popular around them. So it draws a picture of how a city is photographed and what is going above each...
    tagsandthecity.net
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    Planet Explorer

    Available for anyone to explore today. Travel through time. See change. Make discoveries.
    www.planet.com
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    Folklore Map

    Folklore and fairytales such as Jack The Giant Killer, Robin Hood and the Loch Ness monster are in danger of dying out – because parents aren’t passing them on to their kids. Researchers who...
    www.news-by-design.com
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    Peak Spotting

    Peak Spotting combines machine learning and visual analytics to help manage passenger loads within Germany’s vast railway network. The project provides yield and capacity managers with rich...
    www.nand.io
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    The Great Decoupling

    The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
    www.anthropocenemagazine.org
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  • Medium

    Appalachia comes up small in era of giant coal mines

    As the coal industry is squeezed, the most productive mines employ huge machines and relatively few people.
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    The Emoji States of America

    This visualization is a modified version of Chernoff Faces, a technique that maps multiple statistical values to the features of a face. Because it's 2017, we expanded on the technique and made...
    www.axios.com
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    What Is Coral Bleaching?

    While more and more is being seen on the changing state of coral reefs around the world like the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia, we reported on a smaller nearby reef in New Caledonia...
    time.com
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    Infographic on HAZE- Urban Pollution in China

    Haze, that is, smog caused by pollution, has become an inevitable part of life in many Chinese cities. Urban pollution has quietly increased, and it affects the health and lives of many city...
    www.behance.net
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    Losing Larsen

    The one trillion tonne iceberg, measuring 5,800 square km, calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica sometime between July 10 and 12, scientists said.
    tmsnrt.rs
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    The Mercator Problem

    The Mercator projection map tends to be what most of us think of when pondering the world map. However, it has a major flaw, since it drastically distorts the size of objects approaching the poles....
    public.tableau.com
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    Fatal Bear and Wolf Attacks in Norway

    www.reddit.com
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    Virunga - A story of hope, resilience and sucessful conservation

    Virunga National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border of Uganda and Rwanda. It is Africa’s oldest national park and is also the...
    public.tableau.com
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    35 Years of American Death / Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery

    If you look at maps of mortality rates across the country, you might notice a pattern showing up again and again. It's a crescent shape that starts in southeastern Virginia and curves around the...
    projects.fivethirtyeight.com
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    Two Government Agencies. Two Different Climate Maps.

    This story is about how two government agencies differ in their approaches to mapping where differ plant species can survive in which parts of the country. The USDA is constantly improving their...
    fivethirtyeight.com
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  • Medium

    Pedal.

    Pedal is a community of bikers with the unique combination of protecting the environment and pursuing a healthier lifestyle. Pedal achieves this by tracking an individual’s carbon footprint and...
    www.behance.net
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  • Medium

    Metroing Shenzhen

    This project is an interactive website illustrating the dynamics of Shenzhen through data analysis on 165 metro station areas. With this metro searching tool, the readers can have a better idea of...
    metrocity.dtcj.com
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  • Medium

    Endangered Species

    Wild animals are an indispensable part of nature and an important partner of ours. In the past hundred years, due to the continuous deterioration of the living environment of mankind and...
    wx4.sinaimg.cn
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    A Day in the Life of The Tube

    The “A Day in the Life of the Tube” viz summarises the 5 million daily journeys on the underground using the 2015 Rolling O&D survey, and splitting the data into two-hourly periods. The viz...
    public.tableau.com
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    World Song Map

    An imaginary world map where the continents, countries, cities, oceans, rivers and landmarks are made up from the titles of over 1,000 songs.
    www.wearedorothy.com
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    Terrorist Attack in Barcelona

    It is a work done from the Jihadist attack in Barcelona during the month of August. The infographic explains the tour of the terrorists on La Rambla in Barcelona and the places most frequented by...
    www.jordicatalainfographics.com
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  • Medium

    A Constellation Guide to the Sixth Mass Extinction

    A Constellation Guide to the Sixth Extinction is a web VR data visualization project on the modern, man-made episode of mass extinction. The visualization incorporates species datas from IUCN...
    www.6constellation.com
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  • Medium

    Treepedia

    Treepedia measures the canopy cover in cities. Rather than count the individual number of trees, we’ve developed a scaleable and universally applicable method by analyzing the amount of green...
    senseable.mit.edu
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    The goddesses of Venus

    Landmarks on Venus are named after famous women or goddesses. I made a topographic map introducing the woman behind each name. You can find the full-size map here.
    www.behance.net
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    Mapping the Timesheet of Urban Cycling

    Over one year in Boston, 1,064,053 people cycled 16,548,483 mins in total. They burned 56,264,845 calories and saved 1,581,331,745 g CO2 emissions compared to if their journeys were by car. This...
    4trees.github.io
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    Cherry Creek's Impact on Denver's Built Environment

    Multiple time lines represent a layering of forces, actions and reactions that shape the identity and character of a place both physically and experientially. In order to successfully plan for the...
    www.behance.net
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  • Medium

    Sharknado Recreation #IronViz

    An attempt to recreate a visual masterpiece by John Nelson in Tableau Desktop. This recreation published Tableau to its limits using the new spatial data connector and several QGIS manipulations...
    public.tableau.com
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