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    The BK BioReactor: Investigating the Unseen Microbiology of the Gowanus Canal

    A collaboration lead by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, with GenSpace, Weill Cornell Medical College and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, the BK BioReactor is an investigation into the unseen...
    www.bkbioreactor.com
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    A Breathing Earth

    We all know that our Earth goes through a seasonal cycle, especially for the latitudes farther away from the equator. In the fall the "deciduous" plants lose their leaves only to grow back again in...
    www.datasketch.es
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    Shooting stars

    Shooting stars, or meteors, are bits of interplanetary material falling through Earth's atmosphere and heated to incandescence by friction. Make a wish.
    public.tableau.com
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    Lynchburg, Virginia: The Most Typical City in America

    Data is nothing without context. How can we understand a city without first understanding the characteristics of a normal or typical city? I crunched the numbers on eight measures of 917 cities to...
    shift.newco.co
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    Temperature Rising

    Temperatures have been slowly rising for a number of years. In the charts below you can see that the late 19th and early 20th century were quite cool relative to the rest of the time period,...
    www.deanfarr.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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    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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    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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    The curious case of Romania's Gheorghe Doja streets

    Having streets in Hungary named after a Hungarian historical figure is nothing unusual. It’s by no means that unheard of to have streets in neighboring countries bear said name, provided  that...
    arnoldplaton.wordpress.com
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    Pay to learn: A graphical analysis of the link between housing and quality education in Beijing

    NB: This project is only viewable on a mobile device in a portrait orientation. High quality education comes at a price in China, a high price indeed. In 2008, Beijing reformed its middle school...
    news.qq.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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    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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    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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    World's airports

    English: The world’s airports project is a dig data geo visualization. The main categories are divided into the type, location, gps and scale of the object. I’m presenting a variety of different...
    www.martamoskwa.com
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    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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    1812: When Napoleon Ventured East

    A special historical project by Russian news agency TASS dedicated to one of the most dramatic pages in Russia’s past – the Patriotic War of 1812. This program is based on a map outlined by French...
    1812.tass.ru
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    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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    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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    Who migrates to and from NYC?

    The dynamism of migration strengthens NYC and has contributed to the City’s growth in population to an all-time high of 8,537,673 in 2016. These charts show the number of people who moved to or...
    nycplanning.github.io
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    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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    Commuter Flows

    The daily commutes of more than 130 million Americans have been used to identify commuter-based megaregions in the United States for the first time. The project was published in the academic...
    www.sheffield.ac.uk
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    Slavery in the North

    Data on early slavery in the American north is easily available at the county level, but the most important patterns only emerge by going back to the original 1790 publications and plotting it town...
    www.radicalcartography.net
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    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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    The World's Most Dangerous Cities

    The cities with the highest homicide rates are once again nearly all in Latin America
    www.economist.com
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    America's Busiest Bikeshare Bikes

    Meet America's busiest bikes! We sifted bike share data from four cities throughout the USA - Chicago, New York, Washington and Philadelphia. Our goal was to find the busiest bike and map its...
    vimeo.com
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    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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    Air Quality in the United States

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes hourly Air Quality readings at hundreds of sites nationwide, and produces an Air Quality Index (AQI) that measures how healthy the air is at...
    public.tableau.com
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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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    The Wall: A Threat to the Environment

    The effects of building a massive concrete wall range from increased emissions to expensive and potentially damaging climate impacts. This infographic was designed to raise awareness of this...
    www.behance.net
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    Here Traffic Analytics

    The HERE Traffic Analytics suite of data products gives enterprises and government customers insights into what happens on roadways. It helps them make informed decisions, for example, on future...
    vimeo.com
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