Maps and stuff. Fun things.
What we choose to watch on TV says a lot about who we are and what we’re into. Of course viewing preferences between different sports will have a strong regional pattern, but what about the more subtle difference of preferring the collegiate level or the professional level within the same sport? That’s pretty interesting, too! … Continue reading Bubble Madness
Daniel Huffman and I are asking map makers to share with their/our peers stories of a time when creating a map stirred something within them. It’s called A Cartographer’s Story. This is the invitation: Every act of creation is personal. Behind the cartographic theory, tools, and techniques, there is a human being who struggles, who … Continue reading A Cartographer’s Story
This is a map showing the beer vs wine preference across American counties. The brightness is based on how much we spend on beer and wine. Visit this story map to walk through the process and rationale leading up to this value-by-alpha map, if you dare! After sharing this map, a fellow map nerd helpfully pointed … Continue reading Beer vs Wine
This is a cross-post with the ArcGIS Blog You can wield the mighty mighty powers of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to create all sorts of practical, and impractical, or just fun, topographic effects. Why? Making interesting looking maps is awesome and we cartographers don’t always feel terribly practical. But that’s where some sort of … Continue reading Hacking a DEM Sunrise
Here is a look at the per-capita distribution of various top fast food franchises in the United States. The bubbles show the geographic trend of relative popularity across the country -each brand is brimming with interesting trends both in where they are popular and where they are conspicuously absent. The comparative layout allows for a quick … Continue reading Fast Food Frequency
[Update: Lego-ify maps to your heart’s content here] I really liked the charming simplicity and retro vibes of this set of lego-ified works of art, by Geoffroy Amelot. One of those common instances where I wish I’d thought of it. I especially liked this Lego Vincent. So I tried it out on the same portrait … Continue reading Lego-ified Maps
Here is a look at the ongoing drought that has been hovering over the American Southeast since spring. It shows six months of aggregated drought areas (drought perimeters of varying intensity, released weekly, collected from June – November of 2016), binned up into 100 square mile hexagonal zones. These zones are scaled by the proportion … Continue reading Six Months of Drought in the American Southeast
