Noah Veltman - History of San Francisco Place Names
Click around and learn a little bit more about The City by The Bay.
Reuben Fischer-Baum/Deadspin - Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (2013)
Our highest paid public employees tend to be university athletics coaches, but there’s a bit more to the story than that. Hop over to Deadspin and read the full explanation.
Abigail Reynolds - Mount Fear (2010)
One of the coolest concepts in thematic cartography is the statistical surface: the act of representing numerical data as a 3D landscape.
Reynolds’ cardboard sculpture of London obliterates the city’s physical terrain and replaces it with one derived from crime data. The result is a mountainous and desolate landscape, one that offers a potentially more realistic representation of the hostilities of the urban experience.
Switzerland: Demographics and the SVP (2013)
I’ve updated one of my older maps as an excuse to get my hands dirty with D3.js. It’s not outrageously sophisticated or anything, but it turned out relatively (…relatively) glitch-free and hack-free, so I’m decently satisfied.
The map focuses on the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), a right-wing political party that has been a major player in the country’s politics since its rise in the 1990s. It’s a simple li’l interface that lets you cruise around various demographic and social data (college attainment, growth by immigration, foreign nationals, and unemployment), and learn a bit about how it relates to the SVP’s platform.
View it at http://www.resources.maphugger.com/switzerland/index.html
Susie Cagle/Josh Leeman - the Gilded City (2013)
I loves me some qualitative mapping, and this map combines the best in sketchy stylings with hard numbers.
Kelsey Dake/New York Times - A World of Secret Watering Holes (2013)
When life gives you lemons, use them to map the world’s most fascinating bars.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/07/magazine/food-global-drinks.html
Ursula Hitz - Swiss Alps in Words (2012)
Swiss mountains and their elevations assembled into a charming typographic map.
From: Jeff Clark - Movement in Manhattan (2012)
Using the timestamps and geocodes of tweets, Clark investigates the generalized flow of people across Manhattan. Not surprisingly, it’s pretty chaotic. Click through for additional maps, which break things down based on the time of day.
http://neoformix.com/2012/MovementInManhattan.html
Screenshot from: stamen design - here.stamen.com (2013)
One heckuva different view of the city. Turn on the wireframe or watercolor filters for a real head trip.
http://www.here.stamen.com
Screenshot from: ICIJ - Stash Your Cash (2013)
All the fun of embezzling money off-shore, without any of the risk! (For real, though: this is a very novel way of explaining a complicated phenomena. Great approach to journalism.)
http://www.icij.org/offshore/interactive-stash-your-cash
