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    Lost Villages

    Since the beginning of the 20th century, over 300 villages in Germany have been destroyed by coal mining. Residents are forced to sell their land to coal companies. If they refuse, they can be...
    verschwundene-ortschaften.honigmitoe.de
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    Indecoded : India through cartograms

    Built with open source svg manipulation and d3js, Indecoded was launched on Aug 15 2016, India's independence day. Indecoded is a data visualization project that uses open source data to illustrate...
    indecoded.github.io
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    Taiwan Road Kill

    Road kills often occur at night when vision is less clear.I imagined the desperate eyes of animals lying on the road after being hit by a car.Design with the shape of the pupil.Pupils shrink when...
    zhan-taiwan-road-kill.webnode.tw
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    Global Electricity Generation per capita as at 2022

    In this analysis, data sourced from Our World In Data was used to explore global trends in electricity generation per capita from 1985 to 2022 (or at least from the earliest possible year depending...
    public.tableau.com
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    Why The World’s Flight Paths Are Such A Mess

    Apart from waypoints and natural jet streams, there are many man-made constraints such as political, legal and financial restrictions on airspace. Countries use airspace to collect fees or leverage...
    multimedia.scmp.com
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    The Annual Weather in London

    The project is inspired by Wabi-Sabi- a philosophy from Zen Buddhism which centres on the belief that showing truth comes from observing nature. The approach sees and celebrates the beauty of the...
    tana-mi.com
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    The monologue of plastics: we used 186 second video to show how the plastic "empire" expended

    August 15th, 2023 marks the first National Ecological Day in China. Our focus turns to plastic that can be seen everywhere. In 1950, only 2 million tons of plastic products were produced...
    projects.thepaper.cn
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    The San Francisco To Great Bear Lake Pneumatic Canal

    This map visualizes a monumental canal that runs from San Francisco to the far reaches of northern Canada carrying hipster goods during the holiday season. The data used to create the map was...
    www.fictionalcartography.org
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    Nepal Case Study

    Visualization attempts to address the most common threat for local residents in Nepal - landslide collapsing over the road network. There are many technical solutions that could protect the road...
    neudecker.cz
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    Poster Santiago

    Every year, thousands of people from all over the world, each one driven by her or his own motivation, with their own means, take the routes leading to the Spanish town of Santiago de...
    www.postersantiago.com
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    FEED YOUR CRAVING

    My friends REALLY enjoy their fast food. Some even joke about not wanting to visit certain cities because there's not a Taco Bell close enough. I wanted to create this fun viz so that a user can...
    public.tableau.com
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    Visualising TomTom Probe Data In Amsterdam

    TomTom is the only independent mapmaker in the world today, and has been making maps for the world’s largest technology companies, car manufacturers, fleet management organizations, city...
    vimeo.com
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    Hello, Sun. - Sun Tracking and Shadow Simulation AR app

    Visualise the sun's position through the seasons and see the sunlight’s effect on your surroundings in augmented reality. With the 'Hello, Sun.' app you’ll never be left wondering where the sun is...
    hellosunapp.com
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    Travel Around Yellowstone

    This is a visual information map of the tour around Yellowstone Park. A tour route was drawn up in the information map, including nine recommended sites. How far are they? What are the recommended...
    www.instagram.com
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    Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure

    President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to invest about $550 billion in new infrastructure projects across the country was a central theme in his campaign. “We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure,...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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    The Sharks

    The shark is the most ferocious fish in the ocean. The shark existed on the earth three hundred million years before the advent of the dinosaurs, but we did not know that there were many different...
    pic.twitter.com
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    City Street Network Orientations Around the World

    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...
    geoffboeing.com
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    Tracking Space Junk

    Monitoring space junk is becoming more complicated as the number of errant items—and their risk of colliding—increases. Meanwhile, the stakes of doing this accurately are only getting higher with...
    qz.com
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    The Power-To-Trees Convertor Button Pack

    Power-to-Trees Converter Button Pack In a place like Kentucky, where coal is deeply rooted in culture and identity, it’s easy to accept it as the norm. But as a generation passionate about...
    dontunderestimateheather.com
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    The Heat pump calculator: How heat pumps pay off

    The Canadian Climate Institute wants to demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of heat pumps to a large audience to aid people deciding whether to install one in their homes. Voila...
    heatpumpcalculator.ca
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    Climate Bracelet: A Beaded Data Art on Climate Change

    The Climate Bracelet encodes decades of temperature changes in Arkhangelsk, Russia, using the Warming Stripes method by Ed Hawkins. Each pair of bead rows represents a year, with red for warmer...
    eolay.tilda.ws
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    Paul's Missionary Journeys

    The Apostle Paul and his companions crossed the Roman Empire to spread the Gospel and build the early church. This map overlays their journeys onto an interactive view of Roman provinces,...
    viz.bible
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    Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas

    Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, described and even explored – but...
    andrewpekler.com
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    Global Forest of Endangered Plants

    Global Forest of Endangered Plants This project provides an objective scientific understanding of the proportion of endangered plants in each region/country (Data Source/ IUCN Red List Index May...
    simonecai.cargo.site
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    The United States of Rising Hazards

    This is an interactive edition of my previous static map titled The United States of the Blooming Risks. Using FEMA’s National Risk Index (NRI) dataset, this map aggregates the county-level scores...
    cartoguophy.com
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    Western Monarch Butterfly Population Decline

    In 2020, the western monarch butterfly population catastrophically declined to its lowest numbers since counts began – from 1.2 million in 1997 down to fewer than 2,000 butterflies. I created this...
    twitter.com
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    Seas of Change

    This tangible data visualization compares the production percentages of aquaculture, wild catch, and bottom trawling over six decades, highlighting the number of threatened species.
    animeshbajia.com
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    Barrio Salamanca / Salamanca neighborhood, in the bowels of the neighborhood where the rich have always wanted to live

    This article written and researched by Elena Sanz, portrays the history and current context of the most expensive neighborhood in Madrid (Spain): The Salamanca neighborhood. Together, the editor...
    www.elconfidencial.com
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    German Media Universe

    How independent is the German media industry? Who owns the most outlets and publications? This visualisation offers an overview of the entire industrial landscape, with its main actors, its...
    projects.christianlaesser.com
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    What's under babies' bottom affects babies' future

    According to the article "The Lifecycle of Plastics" by WWF Australia, a disposable baby diaper takes 500 years to completely decompose on Earth. When I first came across this new knowledge, I was...
    webbzhou.cargo.site
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