ParkScore and ParkView

How does your community 'score' in terms of access to public parks? Have a look at ParkScore and ParkView (by The Trust For Public Land).

Overview

Overview is great and you can search and access the high-resolution images either via the index or the map.

City Streets

The direction of streets in cities can tell you a lot about its geography and history: Urban Street Network Orientation is a nice data viz of that.

MS Excel and Google Sheets on Steroids!

I admit: I use MS Excel a lot and I'm still amazed how much more there is 'under the hood' in terms of functions, analysis options, and charting tricks - here are a few good ones I came across recently:

• An Empty Bar (Ann K. Emery)
• Removing the Double Y Axis (Ann K. Emery)
• VLookup (Ann K. Emery)
• From Data to Charts in 5 minutes (Ann K. Emery)
• Excel Elbow Grease (great tricks by Ann K. Emery)
• Muted Grid Lines and Area Charts (Ann K. Emery)
• Number Formatting / Conditional Formatting (Ann K. Emery)
• Formatting Months, Days, and Years in Excel (Ann K. Emery)
• Label Axis and/or Data? (Ann K. Emery)
• Formatting Names (Ann K. Emery)
• Sorting and Filtering your Spreadsheets (Ann K. Emery)
• Place Labels Directly On Line Graph (Ann K. Emery)
• Custom Color Codes in Excel (Anne K. Emery)
• Categorize values with =IF() and =VLOOKUP() (Ann K. Emery)
• How to Use Vlookup in MS Excel (Anne K. Emery)
• How to match data with VLOOKUP in Excel & Google Sheets (Lisa Charlotte Muth)
• Sparklines and Data Bars (Ann K. Emery)
• Add Dotted Lines to Line Graphs (Ann K. Emery)
• Direct Labeling in Excel (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Make a Pictogram in Excel (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Fast Small Multiple Graphs (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Easy Dot Plots in MS Excel (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Dumbbell Dot Plots in MS Excel I (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Dumbbell Dot Plots in MS Excel II (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Dumbbell Dot Plots Way Easier (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Make a Slopegraph in Excel (Stephanie Evergreen)
• How to make a scatter plot in Excel (Storytelling with Data)
• Adding a Benchmark Line (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Customizing Colors (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Showing Standard Deviation (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Confidence Intervals to Dot Plots (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Margin of Error in Excel with “Slider Plots” (Andrew Forsman)
• Directly Labeling Excel Charts (Jonathan Schwabish)
• Edit a ledgend in Excel (Storytelling with Data)
• Swimmer Plots (Jon Peltier)
• Pivot Tables (Jon Peltier)
• Interactive data dashboards (Ben Collins)
• Supercategory axis labels (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)
• Plotting value within range (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)
• Embedding a vertical reference line in Excel (Elizabeth Ricks)
• How to do it in Excel: a shaded range (Elizabeth Ricks)
• How to do it in Excel: adding data labels (Elizabeth Ricks)
• Data prep for MS Excel / Google Sheets (Chartable)
• Extract Text from Data Columns (Chartable)
• Create a dot plot (Storytelling with Data)
• Save As Template (Stephanie Evergreen)

BillionPixel

BillionPixel is 'just' a mosaic of pictures, but super-cool: here's Shanghai.

Mer de Glace: 1919 to 2019

More details here: Misusing the Georeference Tool for Historic Image Alignment

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/misusing-the-georeference-tool-for-historic-image-alignment/

2019 Ozone Hole is the Smallest on Record

Good news: 2019 Ozone Hole is the Smallest on Record

The Invisible Gorilla

The Invisible Gorilla is noting new, but still very interesting.

Massive Solar Plant

That's the scale we need: 14 square miles, 1.8 GW in Egypt: Catching Rays in the Desert

Atmosphere, Oceans, and Continents

The EarthWindMap (https://earth.nullschool.net/) is awesome, especially the ability to visualize different atmospheric levels and weather variables. Now we have KCM-earth to compare ocean and wind currents between today and the Early Cretaceous.

1-Minute Map Hacks

John Nelson put together a series of quick videos called 1-Minute Map Hacks with some neat tips and tricks. My favs: 1) How to Fix Overly-Busy Coastlines, 2) How to Tweak a Projection, and 3) Georeference Images.

How years compare with the 20th Century average

I really like this animated chart: How years compare with the 20th Century average. It would be great as a Youtube video or animated GIF.

Remote Pixel

Remote Pixel lets you view Landsat and Sentinel-2 images, perform basic analysis, and download the raw tif files. All that in a simple interface!

Not Statistically-Significant

Mapping Photographs

This is nothing new, but here are a few nice examples:

• Indianapolis (1907)
• Detroit (1908)
• Minneapolis (1907)

Here's the How-To from Maps Mania.

Excel vs. Tableau vs. R

https://stephanieevergreen.com/excel-vs-tableau-vs-r/