Next Engine 3D Scanner

I want one! http://www.nextengine.com/

Internet Speed Test

Fun and useful: just Google speed test and there you go. More about it here.

Air Pollution Map and Data

Global ambient air pollution by the WHO is the map and you can download the data by city and country as a MS Excel spreadsheet.

DarkSky and MeteoEarth

DarkSky and MeteoEarth are for sure some of the coolest weather site out there.

Landsat Thematic Bands Web Mapping Application

Esri's Landsat Thematic Bands Web Mapping Application has been out for a while, but apparently it was enhanced to allow for custom band combinations. Now if it would also allow some basic band-ratios and thresholds, then you could map snow and ice with it!

Do you see it?

Nice presentation (29:35 minutes) by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic on using contrast when communicating with data: Do you SEE it? The power of CONTRAST

About Pies

Nice talk (~25 minutes) by Robert Kosara on pie charts: Pie Charts – Unloved, Unstudied, and Misunderstood.

Germany's Power Sources

Well, here it is: Power sources in Germany (not all that impressive I think).

Biodiversity

Nice video from It’s Okay To Be Smart! Why do more species live near the equator?

Also fun: Guess the Correlation Game.

MyShake

Crowd-sourcing global earthquake data using the smartphone app MyShake seems a bit sketchy, but MyShake: Initial Observations from a Global Smartphone Seismic Network was just published in GRL.

Similar approaches have been used for crowd-sourcing air temperature and air pressure data using smartphones.

How to Georeference a map and serve it in ArcGIS Online is just that - a nice tutorial on how to do that and quite useful if you have older or rarer topographic maps or aerial photographs. A nice example are these historic USGS maps of New England and New York: high-quality scans, but not really usable in a GIS unless you georeference them.

Mississippi River Watershed

More animations here: The Rivers of the Mississippi Watershed

http://flowingdata.com/2016/09/16/mississippi-drainage/

Air Pollution Viz for US Cities

What would US cities look like today if the Clean Air Act had not been passed some 40 years ago? Have a look at What If We Never Changed?

Baton Rouge Flooding August 2016

Nice use and example of a story map: Baton Rouge Flooding August 2016

iSeeChange

iSeeChange is a crowd-sourcing initiative to document the impacts of global warming = a community-based journal or almanac of weather, climate, and associated real-world changes. Now they partnered with NASA and together released the iSeeChange Tracker iOS app (Android to follow soon).

Hotter Oceans

Nice article and map(s) in the NYT: Oceans Are Absorbing Almost All of the Globe’s Excess Heat.

xkcd's timeline of temperature

http://xkcd.com/1732/

August 2016

MADtv Bake My Day

9-11

Traffic Crashes

Fatal crashes along your route lets you map traffic crashes across the country for different years (2011-2015) as a function of your travel route and contributing factors such as alcohol, speeding, etc.

Now that's a braided river!

http://dailyoverview.tumblr.com/post/150130010474/glacial-melting-and-flooding-occurs-every-year-by

Facebook Friendships

This is not new and I don't know if that underlying data are updated, but Interactive: Mapping the World's Friendships is really fun to explore.

It would make a great activity for a Cultural Geography class, especially when you compare social media friendships with, for example, migration and immigration patterns. This 3D migration visualization by Google Trends does not visualize actual immigration, but rather Google searches of the word migration in various countries.

Now compare that to actual data and you have a great research project.

LATAS

LATAS by PrecisionHawk appears to be an app to help you find spaces and times to fly your drone safely. More here.

Comma Chameleon

Comma Chameleon is a simple CSV file editor, but I have to admit: I'm not really sure what its great advantage is over say MS Excel or Google Sheet.

The Earth Science Literacy Principles

I had seen the Earth Science Literacy Principles, but I was not aware of the corresponding YouTube videos and Teaching Resources. See GeoEd Trek for more!

Boom to Bust

Boom to Bust by Enigma Labs is a well-designed Story Map showing the rise and fall of oil and gas exploration in North Dakota.

YouTube Live Streaming for Free Lecture Capture

Who knew: How to Use YouTube Live Streaming for Free Lecture Capture

Peasy

Peasy is an open-source web publishing tool for making simple websites - presumably a simpler option of WordPress or Drupal. Read more about it here.

Programming Language Network

This is pretty fun: an interactive network map of programming languages and how they are related/connected, also viewable as a function of language paradigm.

Reusable Learning Objects

Reusable Learning Objects (or RLOs) are a new and hip term in the world of online and flipped learning = narrated PowerPoint lectures 'enhanced' with interactive features and assessment tools. Lame.

• Example 1
• Example 2

Atlantic Hurricanes 1950-2014

Hurricane and tornado data are very appealing for data viz: you got time, space, strength, etc. and you can viz all that in various ways. The challenge is complexity = how to viz all that in a simple and intuitive way. Atlantic Hurricanes 1950-2014 and Reported Tornadoes from 1950-2015 are both nicely-executed in Tableau.

Global Forest Watch

Global Forest Watch offers rich interactive maps, country data profiles, and more related to forest loss, fires, commodities, climate, and water.

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The Evergreen Data Visualization Academy

I'm a big fan of Stephanie Evergreen and her data viz / MS Excel tutorials. Got $600 per year? Join the The Evergreen Data Visualization Academy!