Data Illustrator

Data Illustrator looks great - a browser-based data viz tool - and comes with a nice Getting Started tutorial. The rest is a bit murky, especially their business model, pricing, etc.

Open Source 3D Mapping

Okay, I'm not a big fan of 3D mapping - I think its more hype than an actual practical improvement. But, here are two open-source options:

• OpenGlobus
• CesiumJS

Teach with GIS

Teach with GIS is  new compilation of educational resources by Esri focused on K-12 (JIT for the Esri UC/EdUC).

kepler.gl

kepler.gl is Uber’s open-source geospatial toolbox and for some reason that is not clear to me they make it available to us. Read more about it: From Beautiful Maps to Actionable Insights: Introducing kepler.gl, Uber’s Open Source Geospatial Toolbox.

I took a quick Uber (...) and it seems to work just fine. The data export worked, the image export did not, but that is probably solvable.

W-MA 1 June 2011 Tornado

Here are a couple of nice videos:

• https://youtu.be/qGYCkGv5sPs
• https://youtu.be/zPGlgMg72iE

Scientific Programming with Python

https://www.ats.amherst.edu/software/scipy/

Blockchain explained

Blockchain explained is a nice viz by Reuters Graphics. I guess I get it now. Maybe.

https://readable.io/

https://readable.io/ has been around for a while to test and measure just how readable your text is. Anne K. Emery offers a nice example on how to use it for data viz.

Ancient Earth Globe

The Ancient Earth Globe has been around for a while, but remains a nice way to take a spin around our plant starting 700 million years ago.

Humboldt Glacier (12 March 2018)