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Monday, October 14, 2019

The Maps Of The Week


The Name Navigator is an awesome information visualization of the popularity of American names over 100 years. It consists of a mapped portal which allows y'all to discovery where together with when your scream has been most popular.

Enter your kickoff scream into the Name Navigator together with y'all tin hand the axe stance an animated oestrus map, which shows the popularity of your scream inwards each terra firma over the concluding 100 years. You tin hand the axe fifty-fifty select whatever twelvemonth together with click on the map to abide by out how pop your scream was inwards that twelvemonth inwards the selected state.

Alongside the map a frequency graph is displayed showing the rising together with autumn of your name's popularity over time. You don't fifty-fifty ask to trammel yourself to ane name. You tin hand the axe equally good add together your friends' names together with stance a following comparing of both your names' popularity over the concluding 100 years.


I'm a huge fan of CartoDB's Torque library, which is capable of creating really powerful animated mapped time-line visualizations of large information sets. The India's Election: 2014 then far on Twitter map is ane of the to a greater extent than impressive examples of a CartoDB Torque created map that I've seen.

The purpose of unlike colors for each of the 3 political party leaders results inwards a really impressive looking map, redolent of a Jackson Pollock painting. Among all the visual dissonance it is hard to pick out which of the political party leaders received the most Twitter mentions. However it is yet a powerful visualization of when together with where closed to the the world people were Tweeting close the Indian election.


Digital Augustan Rome is an online interactive map of ancient Rome, equally it looked closed to A.D. 14. The map is an accurate depiction of the size, location, together with orientation of the diverse structures, roads, together with H2O systems of the urban heart together with mortal at a pivotal stage inwards its transformation into the royal capital.

The map includes points of involvement throughout the city, then it is a bully resources for learning close the buildings together with the life of the Romans. The map fifty-fifty includes a terrain overlay which shows the city’s historical topography at the fourth dimension of Augustus.

Cartography geeks volition equally good live on really interested inwards how the map was made. Making the Map is a fascinating article explaining the cartographic resources used together with the processes undertaken to practise this gorgeous interactive map of ancient Rome.