The Rise and Fall of American Cities

Seen on Maps Mania: The Alperin-Sheriff/Wikipedia population dataset - very cool in terms of the data and the presentation as a scrollable Story Map.

What to consider when creating pie charts

What to consider when creating pie charts is great and nicely-illustrated with examples. In-fact, the whole Datawrapper Academy site has some great information (regardless of whether or not you use Datawrapper).

The Energy-Water Nexus

Here's a new online tool - complete with learning activities - to explore the connections between energy, food, and water: HydroViz. The tool is described here: New Online Tool Teaches Students About the Energy-Water Nexus.

This reminds me of the great book Oil, Water, and Climate: An Introduction (by Catherine Gautier) - I hope she's working on the 2nd edition!

Global Weirding

Global Weirding is a YouTube channel with/by Katharine Hayhoe. She has become somewhat of a celebrity climate change science communicator because she is a) a real and accomplished atmospheric scientist and b) a real evangelical christian. If those seem at odds with each other have a look at her book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions.

• Season 1 Summary (via GeoEd Trek)
• Season 2 Summary (via GeoEd Trek)

Here's her recent TEDx talk: What if climate change is real?

mPing app

Crowd-sourcing precipitation type with mPING by NOAA.

Extremes

Twine 2 and Harlowe 2

Twine 2 and Harlowe 2 are two connected tools to make games in the classroom - broadly connected to the world of Digital Humanities. Looks interesting!