Parable of the Polygons

Try it: Parable of the Polygons

Same Data - Different Conclusions

One Report, Diverging Perspectives is a nice example Motivated Reasoning or, after Plato: Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and [lastly] knowledge.

The Food Dollar Series

Hidden deep in the USDA website is the Food Dollar Series - a series of clever infographics depicting the cost of food along the supply chain from production to consumption.

2 + 2 = 5 and Bill Nye

A Bear's-Eye View of Yellowstone

A Bear's-Eye View of Yellowstone is a great story map, complete with Bear-Cam video.

Global Energy Use

What Powers The World? is a well-designed and simple map showing fossil fuel use, nuclear power, and renewable power in an interactive world map.

Food Insecurity

Food Insecurity in The United States from Feeding America is a) a nice interactive map and b) provides the data (albeit in annoying PDF files).

Tornado Probabilities (1982 - 2011)

Very cool: Tornado Probabilities (1982 - 2011)

ICLUS

The Integrated Climate and Land use Scenarios (ICLUS) are different versions of the future in terms of urbanization, all wrapped-up in a nice animated web map. Plus you can download the underlying data.

New Census Data Tools

Let's face it: wrestling with census data is not fun and to make it easier the Census Bureau released a couple of new tools:

• Census Business Builder. This comes in two flavors: Small Business Edition and Regional Analyst Edition.
• The Opportunity Project. Looks good...not sure what it really is.

Joe Kerski has a short write-up over on Spatial Reserves.

97 Percent

Nothing new here, but yet another study confirming what we already know: Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming by Cook et al. (2016).

Nice write-up over on It's Okay To Be Smart.

Megacities

That's a title I want: Geopolitical Futurist! Still, the TED talk How megacities are changing the map of the world by Parag Khanna is worth watching.



For context read A New Map for America - his latest NYT op-ed about how the US has changed from 50 states to seven mega-regions. And, consider the lesson activity for it.

Geopedia

Geopedia is Wikipedia mapped over OSM. Fun.

www.shipmap.org

This Video Has Consumed 213319.7 Grams of Chocolate!

School Funding

NPR has mapped school spending per student at Why America's Schools Have A Money Problem. The first map is rather conventional, but scroll-down for the interactive and personalized version.

Ozobot

Ozobots look fun - I want some!

The New Map for America

More here.

CO2 into batteries

That's sounds like a better idea than turning CO2 back into fossil fuel.

Virus Trading Cards

Virus trading cards by Eleanor Lutz (aka Tabletop Whale) is simply amazing. Below is the Dengue Virus.

Seriously?

Boston and Miami

Spies in the Skies

Nice map by BuzzFeed: Spies in the Skies

DATA USA

DATA USA claims to be the most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data. FlowingData seems to like it.

Free ASTER!

It's about time...ASTER was getting more and more irrelevant, but now NASA, Japan Make ASTER Earth Data Available At No Cost.

Energy Landscapes

Energy Landscapes: An Aerial View Of Europe’s Carbon Footprint is a nice photo essay.

http://e360.yale.edu/images/features/150730-0539.jpg

Urban Diversity

United States Congressional District Shapefiles

United States Congressional District Shapefiles provides just that - digital boundary definitions for every U.S. Congressional District in use between 1789 and 2012.

Beam

Beam promises super-simple online charting and delivers. Of course, if you actually want to save, download, share your chart they want your name and email.

Flyover Country

Nice app by the University of Minnesota: Flyover Country - see the geology beneath you as you drive or fly over it. Read more about it over on CO.DESIGN.