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    Migrants in Motion

    As climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will animals move to survive? And will human development prevent them from getting there? This map shows the average direction...
    maps.tnc.org
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  • Medium

    NYC Taxi data visualization

    Visualized taxi data from 2016 New Year's Eve. video: https://vimeo.com/199398025 behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/47411555/NYC-taxi-data-visualization-infographic-web-app
    jiahao01121.github.io
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    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

    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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  • Medium

    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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  • Medium

    Tokaido Shinkansen Trains

    The first high speed train connected the cities of Tokyo and Osaka in a train circulating at 200km/h. This visualisation takes a look at how the Tokaido Line has evolved.
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    See how higher speeds led to more crashes on I-295

    In the 12 months after the Maine DOT raised speed limits, crashes increased dramatically north of Portland, but the number of crashes in Portland and South Portland – the freeway's most crowded...
    www.pressherald.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

    TransitFlow

    TransitFlow is an open-source software tool that enables users to easily generate spatial-temporal visualizations of transit frequency in cities around the world!
    mapzen.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

    Planet Explorer

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

    Fast food England: how many takeaways are near you?

    There are now 56,638 fast food shops in England, occupying more than a quarter of all food outlets. Use our interactive map to get the full picture for your area.
    www.theguardian.com
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  • Medium

    UFlood Houston Map

    Floodmap.io is a free, crowdsourced flood reporting service originally launched to help communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey. It's the next evolution of the successful U-Flood Project. Start...
    map.u-flood.com
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  • Medium

    The Great Decoupling

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

    Visualising waste worth £3 million

    How do you draw attention to the recycling we don't do (but could)? And how can you show people the benefits? These were the questions that West Sussex County Council wanted us to show in an...
    www.realworldvisuals.com
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  • Medium

    The Shape of Slavery

    This project has two goals. One is to show the remarkable relationship between the historical geography of American slavery and the present-day patterns of mass incarceration. But second, the maps...
    pudding.cool
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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

    Travel the path of the solar eclipse

    Follow the shadow of the moon as it completely blocks out the sun on Aug. 21, moving along a 3,000-mile path from Oregon’s Pacific coast to the eastern shore of South Carolina.
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    Coral Graveyard: the Loss of the Coral Reef

    This infographic explores the topic of coral bleaching and its environmental effects--bringing light to an issue that is less known.
    www.behance.net
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  • Medium

    Gerrymandering: A Nation Divided, but Who's Drawing the Lines?

    As a geography student I love making maps, and after Obama's last state of the union address I became interested in gerrymandering. So of course I made maps! I hope they can help others become...
    arcg.is
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  • Medium

    1850 Agricultural Production in Pennsylvania

    The 1850 Agricultural Production in Pennsylvania interactive dashboard displays a high-level overview of agriculture in Pennsylvania during the mid-19th century. Data was compiled from federal...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    Dead on Arrival

    Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?
    tmsnrt.rs
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  • Medium

    Thirty years of Atlantic hurricanes

    Each line represents the life of a storm as recorded by NOAA. The higher the line within each year, the higher the recorded wind speed. Storms that reached Category 5, the strongest of the strong,...
    www.axios.com
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  • Medium

    The Trade in Plastic Waste

    Plastic is ubiquitous in our everyday lives – so much that we cannot imagine living without it, nor see how dependent we have become on it. Plastic is in almost everything. Plastic production...
    grid-arendal.maps.arcgis.com
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  • Medium

    Parts of Berlin

    Comparing the different types of space usage in Berlin, it soon becomes clear: It's a political question how much space the city is willing to use for what purpose. Are forests more important, or...
    partsofberlin.tagesspiegel.de
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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

    Unmask My City

    Unmask My City is a global air pollution and health initiative engaging doctors and health professionals in actions to improve urban air quality. Shot in 10 cities in 7 countries, each place was...
    aperturecomms.com.au
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  • Medium

    Most congested cities

    This infographic reveals the 20 most congested cities in the world, measured by the increase in travel times compared to the free flow of traffic
    www.raconteur.net
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  • Medium

    Globe of International Trade

    In 2015, the global import-export market totaled $15.6 trillion. This animated map shows where those goods came from and where they went. Each dot represents $1 billion in value of a particular...
    blueshift.io
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  • Medium

    Two Centuries of Population, Animated

    You’ve likely seen the population density map of the United States in one form or another. A lot of people per square mile reside in big cities, fewer people reside in suburban areas, and a lot...
    flowingdata.com
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