Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Weekly post: Bi-variate Map

Map showing annual snowfall and the (in this case) a correlation to the downhill and cross country skiers of an area. Areas that have higher annual snowfall tend to have more downhill and cross country skiers.

Weekly post: Dot Density

Each dot represents a different cluster of tweets of different languages which essentially maps the world according to twitter and the languages of twitter users.

Weekly post: Isoline Map

The best isoline maps tend to be weather related. Isoline maps make it very easy to identify local weather conditions in your area.

Weekly post: Proportional Symbol

Basic map showing wine consumption in Europe. Not surprisingly, France and Spain are huge consumers (and producers of wine). However I was not expected Germany to consume as much wine as they did since no one thinks wine when Germany is brought into an alcohol discussion.

Weekly post: Color

A map that shows humidity of Africa. Most people associate Africa with hot temperatures but the country has surprisingly low humidity. It's basically hot and dry

Weekly post: Choropleth Map

Choropleth map produced by the ESPN show Sportsnation. Very basic map showing percentages of the excitement level per state for the Superbowl.