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Jigsaw Africa
Scale is a kind of beauty. Here Kai Krause maps out the scale of the continent of Africa in comparison to a selection of the usual suspects: Click through for full-size map, more data, and editorial...
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Herschel and the Orreries
Self-taught astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus through a series of observations in the winter and spring of 1781. The discovery was widely published the following year....
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Hello Spatial Humanities, We’ve been Waiting for You
Patricia Cohen at The New York Times has an interesting article on the “spatial humanities,” the idea of using geographic information systems to reveal the physical context of historical or even...
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“San Francisco Looks Like a Dinosaur”
Here’s a project where residents of a city draw their mental maps of their neighborhood and the city as a whole. From the individual’s point of view, a location may have boundaries, barriers,...
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A Thousand Thousand Thousand Thousand Thousand
I’m not really sure what to make of Randall Munroe’s chart on Money. There’s an enormous amount of data that is almost impossible to read. It needs to be printed whiteboard-sized. Like Munroe’s...
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Mitten State, or the Difference Between a Brand and an Ad Campaign
Which state is the mitten state? Michigan. Wisconsin is the fun state. So says Wisconsin Department of Tourism spokeswoman Lisa Marshall. “We’re not the Mitten State. Michigan, they can own that. We...
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Earthquake Watch
Earthquakes, too, are measured by a non-linear scale. Here, the increasing energy of powerful quakes is shown as an animation (the color coding refers to tsunami potential, based on NOAA’s data and...
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World Map Abstracted
Based on data gathered from Gallup’s World Poll survey the Charities Aid Foundation creates a World Giving Index. The map below shows countries weighted by rank: What I find most interesting about this...
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The Tube as Watershed
Cartographer Daniel Huffman has taken Harry Beck’s map of the London Underground and applied it to river systems. The results are beautiful and illuminating: Huffman explains: I wanted to create a...
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The Scientists Sketch
Data visualization consultant Lee De Cola has assembled a neat cross section of sketches by famous scientists. Here, for example, is a literal back-of-the-envelope sketch by Henri Poincaré: Sadly, many...
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