Trust in Science

Two great cartoons:

• https://xkcd.com/2515/
• https://twitter.com/citycyclops/status/1356286601756770306

Highways & Racism

Great data viz / Story Map: What It Looks Like to Reconnect Black Communities Torn Apart by Highways.

Then, explore: How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering. This one sits behind the NYT paywall, but you can get the underlying scientific papers:

• Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities (Nature Communictions, 25 May 2021).
• The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to Intra-Urban Heat: A Study of 108 US Urban Areas (Climate, 2020)

Mapping Open Data Portalls

Mapping the specific location of an open data portal is a bit weird: is it the location of the server (if there even is a specific location) or the location of the data accessible via said portal? And: what about regional or global data sets? 

Still, I think the map is cool & the spatial patterns are interesting: A Map of Open Data Portals

Human Development Indices (5.0)

The Human Development Indices (5.0) are now available at the subnational level (e.g. states in the USA). Nice: the data are available for download. 

Climate Extremes

Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do

Soil Erosion