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    Outdated and Unreliable: FEMA’s Faulty Flood Maps Put Homeowners at Risk

    What happens when the maps that millions of Americans rely on to make informed decisions about flood risk are rife with inaccuracies? "Outdated and Unreliable: FEMA's Faulty Flood Maps Put...
    www.bloomberg.com
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    CityWays

    CityWays is research at MIT Senseable City Lab to reveal human’s recreational patterns through visualizing datasets from self-tracking applications and environmental factors. In the CityWays web...
    senseable.mit.edu
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    The Geography of Pub Names

    I got curious about understanding whether pub names in the UK can tell us a little bit about the people who drink there. So I produced a bunch of maps that would help investigate this. Some names...
    constantlyplotting.com
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    City Street Network Orientations Around the World

    This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...
    geoffboeing.com
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    The A-Z of London Planning

    The A-Z of London Planning directory serves as a go-to for anyone working within, or with a vested interest in the London property market. It has been designed to provide a visual overview of the...
    indigoplanning.com
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    Biking Copenhagen in 2014

    In Copenhagen - one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world - 50% of all citizens commute by bike daily. This poster illustrates the bicycle counts in 2014 on four different streets in...
    www.dropbox.com
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  • Medium

    Here’s How America Uses Its Land

    How do Americans use their land? Bloomberg’s exploration uses a series of unique 8,000-pixel maps in a distinctive, scrolling web experience. A mash-up of the latest data from the U.S....
    www.bloomberg.com
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  • Medium

    Urbanisation and Biodiversity

    This Infographic project reveals the relationship between the population of three cities; Singapore, Hong Kong and Mexico City and the amount of flora species affected by the overpopulation of...
    fleurellis.co.uk
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  • Medium

    The 'Peak Hour' project

    Fairfax’s ‘Peak Hour’ combined old-fashioned with data journalism, video and interactive storytelling to chart the rise of Australia’s urban traffic woes, engaging its readers with insights...
    www.theage.com.au
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    What is the Pizza Capital of the US?

    When it comes to restaurants, every US city has a unique identity. Austin, TX is renowned for its BBQ. New York City is densely packed with pizza-by-the-slice. San Francisco and LA compete on...
    medium.com
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    Regional Population Structures At A Glance

    Population ageing is a major demographic challenge for humanity. Since population structures evolve slowly and predictably, the demographic, economic, environmental, and social problems of ageing...
    doi.org
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    Tripped Out: The 2003 Northeast Blackout

    A large-format data visualization depicts the complex narrative of the 2003 Northeast Blackout, which began imperceptibly in Ohio over the course of four hours and cascaded within eight minutes...
    evangendell.com
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    Energy Consumption of 53 Co-Operative Housing Areas

    For a magazine of the «Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Zürich» we visualized how energy consumption of 53 co-operative housing areas has changed between 2014 and 2017. The visualization provides...
    hahn-zimmermann.ch
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    The Atlas of Redistricting

    Gerrymandering is having a moment. A number of cases concerning the fairness of district maps have been heard in both state and federal court over the past year. But although district boundaries...
    projects.fivethirtyeight.com
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    Spyviewer

    View historic mapping within a spyglass circle.
    maps.nls.uk
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    Insight Lane: A Data4Democracy Crash Model

    Insight Lane is a volunteer-driven project that combines open data with the power of data science to predict the likelihood of crashes happening on a city's road network. In order to present the...
    boston-crash-model.firebaseapp.com
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    UFO Sightings

    Visualizing over 58 thousand UFO sighting in the Contiguous United States from 1995 to 2014.
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    Urban Forms

    How far can you drive in one hour in different European capitals? This visualization attempts to answer that question.  
    tjukanov.org
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    Iceland's Ring Road

    This was a student project, where the assignment was to create a map or other spatial visualization while using best practices for easy cognition and perception. I decided to create a map of...
    www.carniklirs.com
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    Europe's Coal Pollution Problem

    19,500 people across Europe and beyond died prematurely in 2015 due to coal pollution from EU coal plants. Unless we accelerate the phaseout of coal plants, more people will needlessly suffer...
    www.youtube.com
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    Ecological Atlas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas

    This comprehensive, trans-boundary atlas contains over 100 maps of Arctic marine mammals, seabirds, sea ice, subsistence, and more. The Atlas is organized into six sections that build, layer by...
    ak.audubon.org
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    The Grim Scope of 2017’s California Wildfire Season is Now Clear. The Danger’s Not Over.

    The wildfires that raced across California in 2017 caused historic levels of death and destruction. We examined the 2017 California wildfire season, comparing the size of the fires and examining...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    24 Hours of Traffic

    Visualization of traffic flow from around the Greater Montreal Area. Time-stamped commuter GPS trajectories are visualized from 3 transit modalities: cars, public transit, and bikes. 1 month's...
    www.quorumetrix.com
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    Segregation and Diversity in Swedish Cities

    The issue of segregation of immigrants has generated a lot of interest in many Western countries, not least in Sweden in the run up to the 2018 elections. In the midst of many alarmist stories...
    www.segregation-map.info
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  • Medium

    Visualizing China’s Most Ambitious Megaproject

    China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative will cost $4-8 trillion, affecting 62% of the world's population. See all about the megaproject in this graphic.
    www.visualcapitalist.com
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  • Medium

    A Map Of Delays

    This project visualizes data for each delay-causing incident happened on Toronto’s TTC streetcars network during the year 2016. The map-based, interactive application aims to provide an overview...
    www.behance.net
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  • Medium

    Italia: The Airship Crash Chronicle

    The multimedia long read ‘Italia. The Airship Crash Chronicle’ by Russian news agency TASS is dedicated to one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Arctic exploration. It chronicles the...
    italia.tass.com
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    How Hong Kong’s Weather is Getting Hotter and More Extreme

    NASA registered 2016 and 2017 as the hottest years in Hong Kong’s history. On August 22, 2017, the mercury soared, measuring record temperatures of 36.6°C, making it the hottest day since 1884....
    multimedia.scmp.com
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    Segregation Map

    In an era of rapidly changing cities and demographics, The Post wanted to measure the changes in race and ethnicity since the 1990s. To explore these national changes, we analyzed census data...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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    City in Flux – Informal and Formal Mobility Networks of Cape Town Revealed

    Cape Town's mobility infrastructure is based on two major services: public bus lines and informal shared mini taxis. Together, they form a network of over 800 lines throughout Cape Town. »City in...
    city-in-flux.netlify.com
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