As election season gets underway, that means a few things: more Wolf Blitzer on CNN, sketches on SNL, numerous ad campaigns, and, of course, maps. The New York Times recently released their latest electoral data visualization tool, The Electoral Map: Building a Path to Victory. This interactive infographic features projected outcomes as well as other …
This map, called “Plan of the City of New York” by Bernard Ratzer, was discovered storage at the Brooklyn Historical Society in May 2010. Only three copies were thought to exist until this one was discovered and restored. You can compare the map in it’s very rough, unrestored state using this New York Times interactive piece.
The Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York (CUNY) recently released a new project, 1940s New York. This site features 1940s census data, recently released for public use by the US Census Bureau. The map outlines data from neighborhoods across the city. Click on a neighborhood to view photos, more detailed …
Great Map from this week’s New York Times Sunday Magazine accompanying an article that explains Europe’s financial crisis. The illustration by Andrew Rae humanizes each country and translates its economic situation into “plain English” creating funny characters and evocative scenarios. Just look at Spain lying on the beach counting down its days of severance, while …
We came across a great post from Matthew Ericson from the New York Times who works there as a Deputy Graphics Director. His work seems to fall into the geographic space but also the graphic space and he offers some great insights into when you should and should not create maps. This is a topic that is …
