Glaciogenic Art

Good stuff by Jill Pelto: Glaciogenic Art

US Oil Production 2011 to 2016

Watch Five Years of Oil Drilling Collapse in Seconds is both interesting from an energy-point-of view and also from a data viz point-of-view combining an interactive map and charts with time animation.

Sexism in Location and Education: The Gender Income Gap

This is pretty incredible: the gender income gap of college graduates. Apparently, the data are from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.


Compare that to - for example - The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares.

Mapping with MS Excel

So you want to make maps right 'inside' MS Excel? Here are a few options:

• Esri Maps For Office (What's New in Version 4.0)
• GIS.XL
• Excel Map Hack (free!)
• Heat Mapping with MS Excel (this is actually choropleth mapping, not heat mapping, but still interesting)
• Interactive Heat Mapping with MS Excel (and MS PowerPoint)

Sea Level Rise 1 to 6 Feet

Another nice web app by Tim Witt: Sea-Level Rise and its Impact

GDP Cartogram

Below is great cartogram - showing each county sized as a function of its GDP. Even better: the folks @ Metrocosm tell us How to Make Cartograms With Animation.

Or, use the new Cartogram Tool by Esri.

2015 vs.

How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2015? is a great data viz from The Upshot.

The MEMA Weather Map

The MEMA Weather Map is great use of a Story Map - combining a series of live web maps from a variety of agencies in one convenient tapped browser.

AQUEDUCT Water Risk Atlas

AQUEDUCT Water Risk Atlas by the World Resources Institute 'maps' both current and future conditions and the data are available both as shapefiles and geodatabases.

Plate Tectonics

Motion of Tectonic Plates is a nice Story Map using the Esri Story Map Journal template.

The Geology of the Grand Canyon

Nice and clean: The Geology of the Grand Canyon

Act To Adapt

Act To Adapt is learning game for children and teenager (age 12 to 17) around issues of local climate change impacts and adaptation.

Gravitational Waves

Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America

Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America is impressive data viz: interactive charts that you can a) animate, b) save as a static snapshot, and c) download the data for as MS Excel.

DataBasic

DataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data. They offer the following three tools and provide great resources and activity guides for educators. Read about it over on ProfHacker.

• WordCounter
• WTFcsv
• SameDiff

DataBasic Introduction - What is DataBasic? from Engagement Lab on Vimeo.

The Garden

This is incredible: Jheronimus Bosch, the Garden of Earthly Delights as an interactive and narrated story map. Here is a similar one, albeit much simpler: The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.

Even better: experience The Garden in VR using Google Cardboard. Or, get the non-VR iPad app.

Bosch VR app trailer from BDH on Vimeo.

Mapme Stories

Mapme Stories is a nice and simple platform for creating story maps 'superimposed' on Google Maps. Keir Clarke has a nice write-up about it over on Maps Mania and Vegan Berlin is a nice example of the platform and its capabilities.

Flowlab.io

This sounds fun - Making Games with Browser-Based Flowlab.io.

Downloading OSM

Here are a few good tips for downloading OSM data.

MA Sidewalk Snow Removal Map

MA Sidewalk Snow Removal Map is a simple and clean web map using Esri's ArcGIS Online.

Drones map snow depth

This is new (to me): Harder et al. (2016) used a senseFly eBee RTK UAV to map snow depth. In essence you fly first over snow-free terrain and create a DSM, then create a second DSM over snow cover and subtract the two - clever. There are some limitations (e.g. snow depth has to be greater than 30 cm), but otherwise this seems quite feasible.

The Spread Of Zika

The Spread Of Zika is a nice and simple story map - that's it.

The Climate Inspector

The Climate Inspector (by NCAR) is pretty neat: select your location, your variable, and your RCP to see the map, trend, and annual cycle predicted until 2010.

Stream Gauges

Esri's Live Stream Gauges map is very useful, but 1) choose a different base layer and 2) why is this map not public?

Global Weather Comparison

Global Weather Comparison is great: just click on two point and compare their climates - perfect for students learning about climate zones, land/ocean contrast, and more.

Seasonal Wind Forecasting

Project Ukko is an attempt at seasonal wind forecasting - something clearly useful and needed as more and more of our electricity generation is shifted to sustainable sources such as wind. I'm not a fan of the interactive web map, but it has a high coolness factor.

Project Ukko: Climate Service for Seasonal Wind Forecasts from FutureEverything on Vimeo.

Side-By-Side Synchronized Maps

Seen on Maps Mania: Side-By-Side Synchronized Maps. This is pretty fun, but as Keir says: the interface is pretty confusing.

Guess The Correlation

Try it - it's fun! Guess The Correlation