By Conor White National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused global social and economic disruption with authorities worldwide implementing travel restrictions, lockdowns, workplace hazard controls, and facility closures. Although many international borders closed over the course of 2020, most...
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By Nicole Oveisi The New York Times created an interactive visualization and map of the world’s most polluted airs by tiny particulate matter. Users may choose their city to visualize, while comparing and contrasting to majorly polluted areas worldwide. For...
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By Nicole Oveisi Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) just released their newly upgraded subway map. The infamous NYC Hertz-Tauranac subway map that was released in 1979 has endured throughout the decades, however MTA’s new...
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By Conor White The Racial Dot Map is created by the Demographics Research Group at Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. It uses data from the United States Census in 2010 and provides an accessible...
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By Conor White Redlining was the process in which banks would segregate neighborhoods by loan policy. It was a policy that began in the 1930’s and is still felt in American cities today as its legacy has led to the...
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By Arden Benner This week began with a holiday. Depending where you were, it goes by different names. The American majority still recognizes it as “Columbus Day” as it was named in 1972 (on the 300th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s...
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By Arden Benner As we enter our eighth month of COVID-19 induced quarantine and fall comes to the Northern Hemisphere, a little stir-craziness is to be expected. To counteract the most drastic of its symptoms, this week’s map of the...
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By Conor White This week’s Map of the Week was created using data from the United Nations report International Migrant Stock. The Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations looks at the most popular destination for each...
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By Nicole Oveisi New developments from the Rhodium Group with analysts from ProPublica and The New York Times show insights into the effects of climate change on the United States landscape. With temperatures warming and changing rainfall patterns, temperate climates...
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