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  • Medium

    Map of the Internet

    Despite decades of growth, demand for more and faster internet connections continues to skyrocket. According to Cisco, total internet traffic for 2016 will exceed a zettabyte. (A one with 21 zeroes...
    qz.com
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  • Medium

    2017 Terrorist Attacks

    In recent years, an increasing number of terrorist attacks have shocked communities around the world. Many of the gravest attacks have occurred in nations often overlooked by Western media, such as...
    storymaps.esri.com
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  • Medium

    WP BrandStudio & Bank of America: How green bonds work

    The Washington Post’s in-house creative agency WP BrandStudio and Bank of America partnered to produce a year-long series showcasing how responsible growth strategies are helping customers and...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    Same Stats, Different Graphs

    Datasets which have the same statistical properties, yet produce dissimilar graphs, are an effective tool to demonstrate the importance of visualizing your data. Anscombe’s Quartet is the famous...
    www.autodeskresearch.com
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  • Medium

    Children's mental illness and wellbeing at age 11

    What influences children’s risk of developing poor mental health or low wellbeing, and what could protect them from these adversities? CLS researchers analysed information from more than 12,000...
    www.cls.ioe.ac.uk
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  • Medium

    The fate of the Caliphate

    This is the animated story of the rise, and the eventual fall of the self-proclaimed IS caliphate. The video was produced by the largest news organisation in the Netherlands, NOS. It came about...
    youtu.be
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  • Medium

    Units of Measurement

    Measurements are at the heart of analysis, testing, and discovery. Irish mathematical physicist Lord Kelvin once said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers,...
    www.acre.shop
    Longlist
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  • Medium

    Two Government Agencies. Two Different Climate Maps.

    This story is about how two government agencies differ in their approaches to mapping where differ plant species can survive in which parts of the country. The USDA is constantly improving their...
    fivethirtyeight.com
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  • Medium

    The Threat From North Korea’s Missiles

    Pyongyang has accelerated its tests of missiles and nuclear bombs as it tries to develop a nuclear-armed missile that could hit the U.S. mainland.
    www.wsj.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
    Longlist
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  • Medium

    The parallels between the Russia investigation and Watergate

    Russian interference in the presidential election and the investigation into alleged collusion with the Trump campaign has drawn comparisons to Watergate, with the appointment of an independent...
    www.axios.com
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  • Medium

    Customer value: Medium

    What does Google know about me? What data does my bank save about me? In my final Graphic Design BA thesis I want to show how much and what data is collected from different corporations, like the...
    www.behance.net
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  • Medium

    Click an elephant together and save the world

    This visual app makes CO2 goals tangible on the personal level: What can you change in your own household to contribute to the 40% reduction of CO2 emissions that the Dutch government has promised...
    www.volkskrant.nl
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  • Medium

    It’s not just the Cabinet: Trump’s transition team may need to find about 4,100 appointees

    When President Obama left office on Jan. 20, so did his appointees, which meant President-elect Donald Trump had to fill more than 4,000 vacancies by presidential appointment in his new...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    The Overseas Delivery of "The Infinite Challenge"

    In this period of overseas planning, the members of "The Infinite Challenge" received applications from all over the world , and some of them are selected for distribution. This process diagram is...
    my.zcool.com.cn
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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
    Longlist Shortlist
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  • Medium

    Inequalities Quipu

    This project is about the revival of the ancient Incan Quipu. Quipu is a recording device used by the Incas for collecting and keeping track of data. It consists of cords containing numeric and...
    tuteja.info
    Longlist
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  • Medium

    The Year in Language

    From selfie to wavy, everyday people turn to Google Search to learn definitions, ask questions, and find information. When we add up each of these moments and searches, we see interesting changes...
    googletrends.github.io
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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 human fabric of the Facebook pyramid

    In our previous research, we investigated different areas of the Facebook dispositif: algorithmic and human labor, the digital infrastructure behind the social network, and the exploitation of...
    labs.rs
    Longlist
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  • Medium

    World Potus

    Who would the rest of the world vote for? A data-driven digital experience visualizing “soft” and “human” data to discover the world’s interest in the 2016 US presidential candidates. By looking...
    www.worldpotus.com
    Longlist
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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

    A Map of Every City.

    The 'Map of Every City' is a study of history, the urban fabric, personal experience and gentrification applied to the medium of a traditional city street map. Through its universality, it...
    www.instagram.com
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  • Medium

    The unlikely odds of making it big

    What three years and 75,000 shows in New York tell us about the chance your favorite band will succeed.
    pudding.cool
    Student Longlist Shortlist Gold Winners
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  • Medium

    Watch this extorted money get lost in the expanse of the blockchain

    The clearest visualization of bitcoin we have ever seen. After this summer’s massive Petya/NotPetya hack, Keith Collins of Quartz wanted to show what happened to the $10,000 worth of ransom...
    qz.com
    Longlist
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  • Medium

    SongSim

    SongSim uses self-similarity matrices to visualize patterns of repetition in text. The cell at position (x, y) is filled in if the xth and yth words of the song are the same. Confused? Check out...
    colinmorris.github.io
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  • Medium

    UK General Election 2017: Interactive Full Constituency Results

    Charting the difference between the 2015 and 2017 general elections, seat by seat, covering the main parties.
    public.tableau.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
    Longlist
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  • Medium

    The Executive Abroad

    No sitting American president traveled outside the country before Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Panama in 1906 to see the construction of the Panama Canal. A century later Air Force One regularly...
    dsl.richmond.edu
    Longlist
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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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