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  • Medium

    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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  • 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

    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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  • 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

    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

    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

    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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  • 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

    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

    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

    The tallest buildings in the U.S.

    Client's infographic: how tall would a state stand, based on its tallest building? Which states have the most high-rise buildings? What are most skyscrapers used for?
    www.highrises.com
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  • Medium

    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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  • Medium

    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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  • Medium

    Argentine Food Map

    Map of Argentina illustrating typical goods from different regions: mate tea from Entre Rios, pizza from Buenos Aires, churros with caramel from Mar del Plata, chorizo sandwich from Santiago del...
    gagin.com.ar
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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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Travel Visa inequality

    The visualisation explores how equal citizens of different countries are treated in terms of travelling.
    projects.datavis.club
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  • Medium

    The Topography of Trees

    Standard solid-color blob maps of individual tree species show where a particular tree might be found; this is why they’re useful in field guides. But in order to show the higher-level patterns of...
    www.radicalcartography.net
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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

    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

    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 Watergrabbing Atlas

    This work is the first visual atlas that offers a wide overview about the phenomena included under the notion of water grabbing. Stealing, limiting, disrupting or interfering local communities...
    watergrabbing.com
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  • Medium

    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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  • 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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