The Big Map is up in the Kent Free Library! This is a project highlighting the history of our South End, a neighborhood of immigrants, Black southern migrants, and railroad workers. communitygeography.kent.edu/index.php/20...

This whole project is amazing! 💯

This is pretty cool! Snake on a Globe: your challenge is to move to the next apple and city in the most efficient manner, moving only along lines of longitude or latitude.

engaging-data.com/snake-globe

Earth is so pretty.

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Marie Tharp's groundbreaking maps brought the seafloor to the world In part because of her gender, Tharp was the right person in the right place at the right time to make the first detailed maps of the ocean’s bottom.

Transformative Thursday: Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor in the 1950s, proving continental drift and reshaping geology. 🌍📡 Her work was dismissed as “girl talk” until it changed science forever. How would we understand Earth without her discovery? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM

tiny.cc/fl29001

🧰 How can you tailor a visualization to one very specific audience? What makes a locator map into a friendly guide? And what goes on inside the mind of a tourist? Our writer Rose answers in the latest "Fix My Chart":

👉 https://blog.datawrapper.de/fix-my-chart-map-guides/

Updated political map of the US, via www.instagram.com/timgough/ aka Dirty Hands Studio.

A detail of a black and white illustrated map of Pocahontas County, West Virginia by Mike Hall for Stephen Kurczy's book The Quiet Zone (HarperCollins, 2022) showing the location of the Green Bank Observatory around which is a 10-mile radius where wifi, cell phones and most radio transmissions are banned for scientific military intelligence reasons. The map includes illustrations of mountain ranges, forests and the locations of major settlements within the county.

A black and white illustrated map of Pocahontas County, West Virginia by Mike Hall for Stephen Kurczy's book The Quiet Zone (HarperCollins, 2022) showing the location of the Green Bank Observatory around which is a 10-mile radius where wifi, cell phones and most radio transmissions are banned for scientific military intelligence reasons. The map includes illustrations of mountain ranges, forests and the locations of major settlements within the county.

🤫 Did you know about the area in the Appalachian Mountains where wifi and cell phones are prohibited? My map of Pocahontas County, WV for Stephen Kurczy's book The Quiet Zone shows where 📡
ℹ️ www.thisismikehall.com/thequietzone

Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

Fellow SimCity convert here as well. Got into Urban Planning because of it, dropped out for Environmental Science, dropped in to GIS post-grad while I job searched, and now I've been in it for almost 15 years.

Additionally, lower cost of living areas vs. higher cost of living areas aka the spatial component. Hope that the full URISA report breaks it down more.

#HappyShapefileDay2024 😆

An animated hachure #terrain doodle I made last night/today, varying the line density parameter in my script across 30 frames.

fun Chinese name explainer by Liuhuaying Yang (杨柳桦樱)

vis.csh.ac.at/notmyname/

Are "computer maps" interesting over here? archive.org/details/NASA... archive.org/details/NASA... archive.org/details/geog...
archive.org/details/indu...

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

Poster of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in the U.S. titled “United Swift of America.” On the left is a large map of her US tour stops. On the right is a series of small maps titled “United by Surprise Songs.” Each small map connects cities by secret song album.

I don’t do a lot of cartography these days, but figured I’d share my personal submission to the Esri UC Map Gallery this year: The United Swift of America! Wasn’t a Swiftie until my wife masterminded everything into my subconsciousness.

a black and white photo of a woman wearing a fur coat . Alt: A clip from Adele’s music video for Hello, where she’s dramatically shouting “Hello”

Hey new mappy followers! I mostly repost data viz inspo, best practices, and tutorials (maps or otherwise). As a millennial, I often express myself via memes and gifs.