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  • Medium

    Disaster Operations Map

    CCUSA provides disaster relief assistance and wanted to create a map to better target mitigation, preparedness, relief, and recovery projects in order to best serve communities that are both at...
    ccusa.github.io
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  • Medium

    The Future of Transport - Data Visualisation Dashboard (Transport for New South Wales, Australia)

    Everywhere around the world, governments face challenges planning infrastructure and transport. These challenges include growing and aging populations, safety and the environment. The Future...
    future.transport.nsw.gov.au
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  • Medium

    London Population Map

    London population map
    cargocollective.com
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  • Medium

    Hoodmaps

    A mini startup project built entirely in public, Hoodmaps charts different demographics and neighbourhoods in cities around the world.
    hoodmaps.com
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  • Medium

    Arborregions

    Bioregionalism is an attempt to align personal identity with natural regions rather than arbitrary political boundaries. But most bioregionalist mapping still relies on the familiar conventions of...
    www.radicalcartography.net
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  • Medium

    The Hidden Sediment Reserve: Quantifying Potential Sediment Trapped Within the San Francisco Bay-Delta Watershed's Reservoirs

    The following interactive visualization encourages the user to explore the sediment volumes trapped within California’s constellation of reservoirs. Sediment composes the material infrastructure...
    www.landscapemetrics.com
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  • Medium

    Mighty Morphing Metro Maps – Watch Transit Maps Transform to Real-Life Geography

    Public transit maps occupy a unique place in the mapping world. Unlike most maps, which are designed to satisfy a single purpose, transit maps must strike a careful balance between readability,...
    metrocosm.com
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  • Medium

    Seven things to know about climate change

    It's not a hoax, a myth, or a conspiracy among scienctists. As we argue about the path we take, let's recall the facts that compel the journey.
    www.nationalgeographic.com
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  • Medium

    UnFacebook Map

    Over the last few hundred years, maps have divided territory into political administrative units (countries, states, etc.). Newer spatial realities, however, are driven by the flow or inhibition of...
    ianwojtowicz.com
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  • Medium

    The Sharks

    The shark is the most ferocious fish in the ocean. The shark existed on the earth three hundred million years before the advent of the dinosaurs, but we did not know that there were many different...
    pic.twitter.com
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  • Medium

    Watch the rising of the Shanghai skyline in 49 seconds

    In 2016, Shanghai Tower, the tallest skyscraper in China opened to the public, which contributed to the completeness of Shanghai skyline. Since the early 1990s, Lujiazui has been developed...
    www.thepaper.cn
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  • Medium

    The world's top cities for people and planet

    Today’s cities are finding it hard to be both livable and economically strong. Not one has truly balanced people, profit, and the planet, according to a new report on an index that ranks cities by...
    www.nationalgeographic.com
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  • Medium

    Which Fish are Okay to Eat?

    www.informationisbeautiful.net
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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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  • Medium

    NYC Tree Census

    2015 Street Tree Census, conducted by volunteers and staff organized by NYC Parks & Recreation
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    Tracking Energy Demands

    Working with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) we designed and produced a highly accessible, interactive data tool that allows users to explore how US energy usage and production has changed...
    trackingenergydemandtrends.eiu.com
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  • Medium

    Snows of the West

    Snow is vital to the environmental health of the western United States. Unlike rainfall, it doesn't come as one burst that's here and then quickly gone. Instead, it tends to accrue over the winter...
    www.deanfarr.com
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  • Medium

    Wildlife Strikes on Aircraft

    I created this app to better understand the phonomenon of "Bird Strike" or more widely, "Wildlife Strikes"; that is, interactions between aircraft and wildlife which are often fatal for the animals...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    Google Search Interest Follows the 2017 Solar Eclipse Forecast

    Search popularity, or how frequently a term is searched in proportion to all other queries for a given location, can reveal what excites or interests the underlying population. This...
    www.joshuastevens.net
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  • Medium

    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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  • Medium

    US Goods Trade with the World

    This is my analysis of US international goods trade based on data provided by USA Trade Online, part of the Department of Commerce, as available in February 2017. The graphic shows the relative...
    www.zyan.co.nz
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  • Medium

    Mapping Out The Unknown

    This visualization reviews the data discovery process through the example of the 'discovery' of the Americas by early European sea explorers and cartographers. Original maps from David Ramsey...
    www.olgatsubiks.com
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  • Medium

    Medieval fantasy city generator

    This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size. The generation method is rather arbitrary, the goal is to produce a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city....
    watabou.itch.io
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  • Medium

    Viae Romanae Maiores

    A visualization of the primary roads of the Roman Empire, circa 150 AD, in the style of a subway diagram. Connections between cities are emphasized at the expense of topographical accuracy. The...
    sashat.me
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  • Medium

    3D Map of 2013 Unemployment Rates by County

    This was my final project for a cartography course during my GIS certificate program at Hunter College a couple years ago. I knew I wanted to do a 3D "topographical" map and I had worked with...
    www.facebook.com
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  • Medium

    Parliament

    This website is the virtual counterpart to the book ‘Parliament’. The book explores the double-sided relationship between space and politics by documenting and comparing the plenary halls of the...
    www.parliamentbook.com
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  • Medium

    Beautiful Trash

    Beautiful Trash visualizes a week of trash collection routes in Cincinnati, OH using the open data from the City of Cincinnati. In addition to the visualization, there is also a YouTube video...
    www.dataplusscience.com
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  • Medium

    Bay Area residents looking to leave

    Faced with some of the steepest home prices in the United States, Bay Area residents are searching for cheaper cities to settle down.
    www.bizjournals.com
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  • Medium

    Amazon Rainforest

    Billions of people and animals rely on the benefits of the Amazon rainforest, including food, fresh water, shelter and climate control. Forests such as the Amazon play a critical role in mitigating...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    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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