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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

    INRIX Data Visualization for Global Traffic Scorecard

    Each year, transportation and location-analytics company, INRIX, releases its Traffic Scorecard — a global ranking of major cities based on the economic costs of traffic congestion based on more...
    inrix.com
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  • Medium

    Multimodal Symphony

    New York City's transportation system moves millions of people every day, from MTA buses to regional Metro-North rail lines to the omnipresent subway . Multimodal Symphony animates 24 hours of NYC...
    vimeo.com
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  • Medium

    resourcetrade.earth

    Intuitive interactive maps & charts visualising an extensive & authoritative database of international trade in natural resources. Chatham House’s resource trade database reorganizes UN...
    resourcetrade.earth
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  • Medium

    The flow of goods between states

    This map shows the flow of all domestic freight between states in 2015 using data from the Freight Analysis Framework, which is a comprehensive accounting of all commercial freight movement between...
    www.axios.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

    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 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

    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

    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

    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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  • Medium

    The Age of Agglomerations

    This project forms part of Agglomerations. World>Russia>Moscow, an investigation carried out for the Moscow Urban Forum 2017. Сartographic data, graphics, diagrams and texts presented here...
    agglomerations.ru
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  • Medium

    Siria: Danni Collaterali (Syria: Collateral Damage)

    Siria: Danni Collaterali (Syria: Collateral Damages) is a visual journalism project which sheds a light on the destruction of historical heritage during the Syrian civil war. Text insights and maps...
    syria.visualeyed.com
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  • Medium

    Understanding coastal adaptation

    Climate change is affecting many aspects of our world. The impact of climate change is particularly significant for our coastal regions, which will have to deal with rising sea levels as well as...
    coastadapt.com.au
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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

    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

    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

    5,430 collisions between January 1st, 2017 and September 15th, 2017 in all of Seattle

    Around fall 2016 I decided to wind down my consulting business Studio Ten Four after 8 years and go back to a full-time salaried position. So, began my job search. Resume here. I decided to focus...
    seattlecollisions.timganter.io
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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

    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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  • 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

    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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  • 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

    New York City Stop & Frisk

    “It worked very well in New York… it brought the crime rate WAY DOWN” – Donald Trump “It was ineffective” – Hillary Clinton “The argument is that it is a form of racial profiling” – Lester...
    www.benrydal.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

    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

    The expansion of metro lines in Chinese cities

    Less than 20 years ago, only three cities in China had subways. If you didn’t live in Beijing, Guangzhou, or Shanghai, underground travel was a complete mystery. Today, there are more than 60 metro...
    qz.com
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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

    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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  • 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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