When Does Crime Happen?
Joe Golike and Sha Hwang of Trulia take a deeper look at when crime typically happens throughout the day in 25 big cities across the United States. Read more
How We Visualized 23 Years of Geo Bee Contests
We created an interactive visualization of the National Geographic Bee Contest's history. Here we talk about finding the right story, design decisions, and the dirty work of getting data into a usable form. Read more
TenderNoise
Did you know that noise complaints are the no. 1 quality-of-life issue for city residents? The folks over at Movity.com tackle this issue with the TenderNoise project. Read more
Travel Time and Housing Prices Map
MIG Inc. teamed up with the folks at Stamen Design for a series of interactive maps for the One Bay Area project. The first map in this series, the Travel Time and Housing Prices map, shows the relationship between travel time for different modes of transit, and housing prices in the bay area. Read more
River Transit Maps
Daniel Huffman gives us an alternative view on how to look at rivers: Using the analogy of urban transit maps, he achieves a high level of abstraction an thus gives a clear overview over relationships and hierarchies. Read more
Google Zeitgeist 2010
With this years Zeitgeist application, Google captures the spirit of 2010. Read more
Sound Mapping in New York City
New York Mapping by Mark Edward Campos investigates the context around a site. It helps to understand the goings on, in a 24-hour timeframe of an area in New York City. Read more
Polymaps
Polymaps is a free, open-source JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps. It is the result of a collaboration between Stamen Design and SimpleGeo. Read more
Mapping Istanbul by Project Projects
I stumbled across this superb looking book called "Mapping Istanbul". It is the work of Project Projects in collaboration with Garanti Galerie and Superpool architects. The aim of the book is to visually capture the complex nature of the capital city of Turkey. Read more
Stunning Examples of Data Visualization in Google Earth
The Google Earth blog recently posted some examples of how well Google Earth can be used as a scientific visualization platform. The examples are posted by Thijs Damsma from the OpenEarth Initiative. Read more
How Fast, How Far? Triptrop Knows It
Triptrop NYC is a small mapping application by Jonathan Soma that maps the expected travel time from one point in New York to another using the NY Subway system. Just type in an address and it returns a map with an heatmap-like overlay. Read more
Typography Meets Infographics
Fontshop is celebrating its 20th birthday and they invite us to celebrate with them. On this occasion they've created a delicate infographic documenting amusing and enlightening statistics. Read more
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