Monday, January 30, 2017

Mapping Snowfall in 3D

This is interesting: The past day in snowfall, mapped is a snowfall map in 3D for the USA. This could be improved and made more interesting, for example by adding a search function and being able to specify time periods.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Global Nuclear Power Database

The Global Nuclear Power Database is a nice interactive data viz. Too bad they do not include a convenient way to download the data.

The History of Data Viz

According to the Milestones Project.

Visualizing The US Drug Epidemic

Visualizing The US Drug Epidemic is a nice example of interactive mapping and data viz using Tableau Public.

Monday, January 16, 2017

Need to make a chart? Here are 24 options.

WHAT I LEARNED RECREATING ONE CHART USING 24 TOOLS is awesome - she took the same data and created the same scatter plot with all of them.

If that's not enough for you: have a look at http://dataviz.tools/ and their curated and categorized compilation.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Using low-cost UAVs

Here's a nice example of using a low-cost UAV for a 'real' scientific application: An evaluation of the effectiveness of low-cost UAVs and structure from motion for geomorphic change detection (Cook, 2017, Geomorphology). The challenge here of course is that you need highly-accurate GCPs and those require a) access to the study site and b) sophisticated GPS surveying.

Thursday, January 5, 2017