EarthPorn

EarthPorn is great (and safe): mapping-out awesome photographs of the world based on Reddit posts. Try the different options & design your next vacation!

High & Low

Here are some cool 360 deg immersive experiences:

• Climbing the Zugspitze
• Climbing El Cap
• Going deep into the Son Doong Cave

Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?

 

The World’s 25 Largest Lakes, Side by Side

The World’s 25 Largest Lakes, Side by Side is nothing special, but a great visualization. Looking at the shapes of these lakes...it would be great to a) take say all lakes in the USA, b) determine their shape (e.g. roundness, elongation, etc.), and c) correlate that to how they formed (e.g. geologic faults, glacial erosion, etc.) - I wonder if there would be patterns?

Make a Postcard from R

Total nerd-alert here, but fun: use the ggirl R package to turn your chart into a physical postcard that will be mailed to a fellow nerd. Awesome!

Qualitative Data Viz

Open-ended questions are always tricky to visualize, but Ann K. Emery has some good suggestions here: How to Visualize Qualitative Data with Colored Phrases

The AT in 3D

I have never quite understood the fascination with the AT...but here's a cool and fun interactive 3D 'map': https://pom-static-backpacker.s3.amazonaws.com/2020/The+River/app/index.html#