Mapping the Casualties of War - Battlefield to US Hometown

This is sobering interactive display of war casualties, linking battlefield locations to hometowns. Credit to Flowing Data for bringing this to my attention - a collaboration between CNN and Stamen Design.

Penn State - Beaver Stadium tradition - 50 years of history

The Geo-Spatial Revolution - Espisode 1

Most recent release of the Geo-Spatial Revolution project from Penn State. Episode 1 which covers the evolution of geo-spatial technologies and the use of open source mapping in Haitian earthquake relief efforts.

Google's SketchUp 8 - 3D design and CAD-like rendering

The latest from Google's SketchUp 8 - very slick stuff.

Moving out of New York (and into): The Visualization of Where

Found this  - a wonderful interactive visual display of New York migration patterns by zip code.  Really at its base, there are two key bits of information driving this map - where to & from by zip.


Taking a "dot cartogram" approach, I like to the "in-out" color thematics and inter route line connections to origin and destination zip codes.


This was part of 15 data "interpretations" featured on FlowingData and WNYC. Read/view more on the other submission below.

From WNYC.org's Map Your Moves: Data Visualization Challenge Submissions


Full credits to Moritz Stefaner (moritz.stefaner.eu)  - great work! Also thanks to FlowingData Mapping the moves of New York residents for bringing this to my attention.