Mar 05
Some briny deeps are brinier than others. The Atlantic Ocean has two huge “deserts” of extra-salty water, the result of little rainfall and lots of evaporation. More »
Feb 21
If you’ve ever wondered which languages are spoken where in NYC, here’s the map for you. This visualization shows exactly which languages are used in tweets across the city. More »
Feb 19
This Map of the United States of America Shows Where the Most Cragslist Missed Connections Happen in Each State
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The map of the United States doesn’t just show state lines. Sometimes it reveals Google autocomplete stereotypes. Other times it proves that we’re not that divided. This map might be the best though. It shows each state’s most popular locations for Craigslist Missed Connections. Meaning these are each state’s best spot to see somebody you think is pretty cute. It’s wonderful. More »
Feb 18
This Is Where Apple Sources All Its Components (Spoiler: It Ain’t Just China!)
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This map, put together by China File, plots all of the publicly available suppliers who fuel Apple’s production lines. While the majority are found in Asia, it’s interesting to see that the rest of world represents, too. More »
Feb 15
While it’s not for us to suggest that state boundaries are in any way arbitrary, artist Neil Freeman has re-imagined what a map of the US would look like if each and every state had an identical population count. More »
Jan 30
NFL Support on Facebook, Visualized
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To celebrate the impenidng Super Bowl, Facebook decided to analyze NFL support across the US based on Likes. Many of the results are as you’d expect—but there are a few interesting quirks along the way. More »
Jan 03
The Color of Movies, Visualized
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These images are called spotmaps: each colored square represents the average color from one second of a movie, and that process is repeated the whole way through the film. Can you guess which movies are shown above? More »
Dec 04
If you want to remind yourself of the scarcity of life, just check out this visualization that shows the births and deaths in the United States of America in real time. It’s pretty insane to see just how many people’s lives change every second. You just never know. Check it out here. [Google Drive via Nowhere Near Ithaca] More »
Nov 28
Nov 27
In 2010, New York City pumped out 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. That figure’s close to meaningless for most of us, though—so here’s what it would look like if you could actually see it. More »
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