Boar straying into urban areas has been a problem in many modern cities, the boar problem in Hong Kong refers to the increasing population of wild boars in urban areas. Rapid urbanization has...
This deeply researched piece debunks the popular myth of the Northern route becoming a global shipping artery through the Arctic. Detailed shipping, bathymetric and ice coverage data, presented in...
As a follow-up to last week’s visualization of Old Light and New Light, I wanted to make a single map, of the whole world, comparing NASA’s new 2016 Earth At Night image to the 2012 version. Using...
#tagsandthecity renames subway stations after the Instagram hashtag which is most popular around them. So it draws a picture of how a city is photographed and what is going above each...
What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface.
Human light...
The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble, with recent research suggesting insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate.
Amid deforestation, pesticide use,...
Data Soap is a personal documentary project presenting individuals’ household water stories with data and emotion. It allows the audience to glimpse people’s lives. The data is transformed into an...
How has the UK – cradle of the industrial revolution – nearly ended its reliance on coal?
Carbon Brief tells this story of unprecedented change in a scrolling graphical narrative that maps every...
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....
Heartbeats. is an info-art piece to make the heartbeats of animals visible and audible. More than 150 species of animals are going extinct every day. Perhaps considering the beating, breathing...
Newly released data shows the true extent of industrial fishing. More than 55 percent of the surface of the world’s oceans is fished, with China accounting for vastly more than any other country.
The seas cover 71% of the Earth and are home to the vast majority of living things on the planet. Water temperatures are rising.
In a five part series, Reuters looks at the implications of the...
The HERE Traffic Analytics suite of data products gives enterprises and government customers insights into what happens on roadways. It helps them make informed decisions, for example, on future...
What if you could visually compare any property's assessment value against all others in a city with a click? What interesting patterns could you find?
Starting with those questions, the project...
Bioregionalism is an attempt to align personal identity with natural regions rather than arbitrary political boundaries. But most bioregionalist mapping still relies on the familiar conventions of...
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...
As a geography student I love making maps, and after Obama's last state of the union address I became interested in gerrymandering. So of course I made maps! I hope they can help others become...
Curbing global warming, halting the loss of biodiversity, and building a just and equitable economy are among the world’s most pressing needs. To track progress and reveal systemic obstacles to...
This unique interactive map allows you to explore and compare fields and crops in Europe and the USA.
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A team of data and graphics reporters spent months talking with experts, analyzing and visualizing historical tornado data, and creating detailed explanatory graphics in order to explain a shift in...
A special historical project by Russian news agency TASS dedicated to one of the most dramatic pages in Russia’s past – the Patriotic War of 1812. This program is based on a map outlined by French...
The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...
The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus Index is a national-level composite indicator founded on 21 relevant indicators. This website provides a user-friendly visualisation of the index and an entry...
In this series of maps, Reuters traces the course of the Rohingya crisis, from the spasm of violence a year ago through to the daily lives of the refugees in teeming camps.
Peak Spotting combines machine learning and visual analytics to help manage passenger loads within Germany’s vast railway network.
The project provides yield and capacity managers with rich...
Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
Firefighters battled some of the largest fires in California’s history in 2020's fire season.
A fleet of specially equipped firefighting aircraft that can steer or contain a fire’s perimeter...
In large expanses of the continental United States, spring is arriving earlier than in past years. In this graphic story for The Washington Post we analyzed first-leaf and first-bloom indexes, as...