Flow Maps

Flow Maps are cool, but really tricky to actually design & make look good. Here are two good resources:

• Flow Maps (by Esri) shows some hacks in ArcGIS Pro & ArcGIS Online that can be used to make flow maps.
• Flow Mapping (by PennState) is a great overview & introduction.

Pathfinding

Cool, but not sure how useful: https://honzaap.github.io/Pathfinding/. Define the start and end points and then see the shortest path emerging.

Silly, but Fun!

Travel Times to US State Capitals

I guess it all started with Rome and now they have extended the basic analysis to US state capitals:

• Read the details
• Interactive map

Timemap

Timemap is a new take on network analysis and simplifies the visual display as a series of concentric circles as a function of time from your location (turn-by-turn directions are still available).

Service Area Analysis

That's what we call this in Esri world - travel time or travel distance analysis may make more sense to normal folks. Here you are traveling on a road network - how far can you get over some time period? Two great examples via Google Maps Mania:

• Isocope - lot's of options for travel day, time, and mode (car vs. pedestrian). The link drops you into London by default, but Isocope works globally.
• HERE.com's Isoline Routing Example - very similar, but starts you in Berlin.

Urban Network Analysis

Urban Network Analysis is a project from the City Form Lab at MIT - a toolbox for ArcGIS.

Esri: Drive-Time Buffers and Viewshed Analysis

This is nothing radical, but a nice way to very quickly demonstrate what we can do with network analysis or a digital elevation model = a good entry point to then explore the actual data, underlying tools, and sophisticated analysis functions in ArcGIS.

• Teaching Spatial Concepts with Drive-Time Buffers
• Teaching Spatial Concepts with Viewsheds

Gephi and Neatline

I'll be honest: I'm not quite sure what one would exactly do with Gephi - interactive data visualization, particularly suitable for large complex networks and systems. But, it's a free, open-source, and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX so why not try it?

• Gephi
• Short Gephi Tutorial
• Gephi : An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks

Neatline is a tool or framework to tell stories with maps and time. This is a bit trickier and comes as a suite of plugins for Omeka (a content management and web publication platform). But, there is also a live online sandbox. This looks to be somewhat similar to Storytelling with Maps by Esri.

• Neatline