The Map Scroll

There was an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile this morning. That is one of the ten strongest quakes in history, and a hundred times stronge...

The NY Times has an interactive map of Olympic medals won by country: This represents medals won in the Vancouver Olympics thus far. You...

PeteSearch finds some patterns in the ways Facebook users are connected to each other: The colored clumps represent areas within which user...

Gallup asked some people how satisfied they were with their standard of living, which yielded this result: Says Gallup: The 2009 satisfacti...

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: how much of the Northern Hemisphere is currently covered in snow, and can this informa...

A proposal for electoral reform from fakeisthenewreal : It's neat and all that the US was the first modern country to adopt many democra...

The classic Eames film: Because I'm feeling rather logarithmic this week.

Some countries have been historically lucky. Some have been unlucky. And then there is Haiti. I've always rooted for Haiti - how can you...

The New York Times raided Netflix's queue data and came up with this : It shows Netflix rental patterns by zipcode in twelve great Ameri...

Paul Krugman points to another be-mapped Brookings report , this one on the growth typologies of the 50 largest US metro areas. Here's ...

The Brookings Institution does this thing called a Metro Monitor . It monitors metros, economics-wise, and it comes with some maps. This on...

Ladies and gentleman, your latest state-by-state quantification of human feeling : This map is based on a new study that finds correlations ...

The blog at Good has a map of the US interstate highway system on the model of the London tube map: A detail: Nice map, but I don't thi...

Neil Freeman's rather postmodern fake is the new real site has a graphic of the "fifty largest metro areas (in blue), disaggregat...

Via The Map Room and mapperz , here's another nice visualization of the calamity coming down the pike. The image on the left anticipat...

While bureaucrats from around the world are in Copenhagen haggling over an arcane agreement that may have profound effects on the state of t...

Patrick Chovanec , an associate professor of business-type stuff at Tsinghua University in Beijing, has a map of what he calls the Nine Nati...

A visualization of four European empires over the course of the 19th and 20th Centuries: The bubbles respresent "the evolution of the t...