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exploring tornado analyses and data
It’s that time of year, when small towns in the Midwest make headline news for the trailers that get upturned. One of my favorite data visualization referatory sites, ChartPorn (unfortunate name,...
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data for mapping farmers’ markets
During a workshop today, I came across this USDA collection of data for farmers’ markets. Easy to download, easy to map. Don’t know how currently or accurately it’s maintained, but it’s enough to...
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more examples of linking geography and history via maps, some digital
My friends at the UVa Scholar’s Lab shared with me their new Neatline project earlier this week. I don’t know much about Omeka, but I always trust these guys to do good work with a wide range of OS...
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an idea worth supporting: an innovative, well-designed, and community-sourced...
New to me: the current project being undertaken by “guerrilla cartographers” to create a food atlas. I love the premise, I love the process, and I know I’ll like the product. Go mappers!
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next generation of digital “knowledge network” maps
This year we’re supporting several faculty projects that involve mapping “knowledge” – collections of ideas, groups of people, collections of objects. They have both geographic and non-geographic...
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Metropolitain, some beauty behind the Paris metro
Here’s a beautiful visualization of the Parisian metro system. I particularly like the 3d version with the density / heatmap underlay. Thought I’d gotten this via FlowingData, but maybe not?
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Maps as Organizational Templates
There’s a hip trend going around, making simple maps with labeled spaces. At least one or two a week have been crossing my computer screen lately. I’ve always referred to this approach as using maps as...
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the Golden Era of Visual Storytelling
What I like about this notion of the Golden Era of Visual Storytelling is that it’s seen in the here and now as being special, and it suggests that we might even consider this period an extraordinary...
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Live ocean mapping in the South Pacific
Just today I learned about NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer current trip in the Pacific. Apart from the live (and previously recorded) narration that I’m finding mesmerizing, I can’t stop watching the “live”...
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Treasure of data access for GIS&T domain
I was about to jump into my regularly scheduled workday when I came across this data visualization tool for educational statistics, whose primary sources are EXACTLY the same ones that I’d been...
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