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Thursday, January 21, 2021

Maps Of The Week


This calendar week the Los Angeles Times created a real impressive visualization of every shot made past times Kobe Bryant inward his long career. Every Shot Kobe Bryant Ever Took allows you lot to explore a shot map of Kobe Bryant's 30,699 career shots, both successful as well as misses.

The map was made amongst CartoDB as well as Leaflet.js, which agency you lot tin strength out pan merely about the shot map as well as zoom inward as well as out similar you lot tin strength out on whatever other interactive map. You tin strength out equally good interact amongst all the shot map markers. The majestic dot markers on the map squall for his successful shots as well as the xanthous dots demo his misses. You tin strength out fifty-fifty mouse-over whatever of the dots on the map to uncovering out which game it was made in, the distance of the shot as well as the appointment of the game.


Urbica equally good released a real impressive mapped information visualization this week. The NYC Citi Bike Rebalancing Study visualizes pop trips taken on NYC's Citi Bike network, re-balancing routes (where bikes are moved from station to station) as well as private cycle docking station profiles.

One of the biggest problems facing bike-sharing networks, such equally New York's Citi Bike, is re-balancing the bikes inward the docking stations. Bikes take away to survive moved merely about the docking stations to ensure that stations are non empty as well as that bikes are ever available. Uneven need as well as daily traffic flows (particularly during tiptop commuting times) tin strength out foreclose bike-share networks reaching their total potential.

There are 2 visualization modes on the map. The 'Trips vs Rebalancing' fashion allows you lot to stance trip routes as well as compare this to the re-balanced cycle routes. If you lot select an private station on the map you lot tin strength out equally good stance the average availability of bikes at the station over 24 hours.

The 'Station Availability' fashion shows the per centum of bikes available at stations for whatever sixty minutes of the day. If you lot role the timeline at the bottom of the map you lot tin strength out encounter how the availability of bikes at each station changes over the flat of the day.


The MapD Political Donations map visualizes 25 years worth of political donations information on a Mapbox GL powered interactive map. Using the map you lot tin strength out explore where as well as how much Americans get got donated to the Democrats as well as Republicans since 990.

Zoom-in on the map as well as you lot tin strength out encounter locations where political donations get got been made. Blue dots on the map demo donations made to Democratic candidates as well as reddish dots demo donations to Republicans. The size of the dots correspond the relative size of each donation.

Beside the map you lot tin strength out encounter charts showing the amounts made to each political party as well as to private candidates. One of the most impressive aspects of this visualization is the speed that it responds. Move the place on the map as well as both the map as well as the charts virtually straightaway update to demo the information for the electrical flow map view.