Mapping Vice in San Francisco
15 Aug 2013Ok, it’s from 1885, but have things really changed much?
Can anyone explain to me why there are so many different shapes of pasta?
Death and Taxes 2014
In: Politics US Economy
15 Aug 2013A visualization of where the government spends your money (and the money it borrows). I prefer previous years’ way of graphing the total budget in the corner with circles vs the bar chart now used.
What Lands Did Europeans Really Discover?
14 Aug 2013Nice work by Bill Rankin over at Radial Cartography. He tries to map out lands that were really uninhabited prior to discovery. You’ll notice they were mostly small islands.
If you like maps and haven’t browsed that site before, you should. Lots of cool projects:
A table of projections:
Comparison of subways in the USA:
Make a personalized celestial calendar:
Its Crowded Around Here
In: Science
14 Aug 2013Below is a map of the orbits of 1400+ asteroids as collected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Thankfully, none of these potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are expected to intersect the Earth’s orbit in the next 100 years, since they are all at least 460 feet in size and would hurt.
Washington DC Transit (1888-today)
13 Aug 2013I came across this interesting map of 1888 horsedrawn streetcars in Washington DC:
Not entirely difference from the location accurate version of the modern subway map:
Of course, a more accurate comparison is probably to a modern bus map. but they are so busy:
DC is scheduled to re-introduce streetcars in 2013/14, starting with a small run along H Street SE.
Atlas of Prejudice
5 Aug 2013Alphadesigner continues to take satirical mapping to a new level, with several dozen maps of stereotypes, from many different perspectives, updated regularly.
Red Heads and Blondes
5 Aug 2013
What’s Hurting Us
In: Science
5 Aug 2013From the New England Journal of Medicine comes this chart of world injuries. The differences between regions are interesting, but beg explanation. Also, the article fails to give a good definition of the indicators (Years of Life Lost, Years Lived with Disability?), and you have to wonder how accurate the data is for many regions.
How Old are the Buildings in Brooklyn?
In: History Interactive Maps
5 Aug 2013An absurdly detailed map of Brooklyn color-coded by the age of the buildings.
NYC Bike Share Usage
In: Culture Interactive Maps
30 Jul 2013A clever animation of how the bikes move around throughout the day. You have to watch it on slow to really get a feeling of what’s going on.
Silly Alphabets
26 Jul 2013I usually don’t post this stuff, but it’s Friday afternoon, and I like them. Mike Baboon has a great eye for distilling form and creating color palettes.
Marvelphabet (hero and villain):
Muppet Alphabets:
Oz-abet:
Meteorite Sightings (1913-2013)
26 Jul 2013Meteorite fireballs witnessed from 1913. I’m not sure what is gained by putting this on a map. Also, since this is just eyewitness accounts, it suffers from population density bias.
Bootstrap America
22 Jul 2013Is the American dream still alive? Can you work hard and raise your income level? Well, it kinda depends on where you live. The NYT has a couple of nice interactive tools who exploring the results of a study of the issue. (via FlowingData)
Not the best charts in the world, but combined with the narrative, they are a good quick summary.
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