By Arden Benner The first version of this map was created over forty years ago, and the basis was the same—to create a visualization of the human race wherein one dot is equivalent to one million people. The representation begins...
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Arbor Day, which is celebrated on the last Friday of April in most states in the United States, is a holiday where people are educated about the importance of trees and encouraged to plant and care for them. It is...
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  By Arden Benner Using data compiled from 194 different countries, The Facial Recognition World Map was created by SurfShark as a way to visualize the ongoing spread of facial recognition technology. Perhaps most commonly used to unlock cellphones, facial...
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By Jake Rogers NOAA releases a monthly report on climate conditions, and anomalies that include many incredible maps to relay the data from the National Center for Environmental Information. These reports are part of the suite of climate services provided...
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Written By Jessica Devous This week’s Map of the Week is looking at the best and worst public transit maps in the United States. Based on Christof Spieler’s atlas, Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of U.S. Transit, he shows...
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By: Conor White The United States is currently well into the second month of life under lockdown. Not many could have predicted that our normal daily lives could have changed so drastically in such a short space of time. It...
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  By Jessica Devous Inspiration for this week’s Map of the Week came from maps of diasease at the Library of Congress. Published in 1874 by L.H. Carney, six maps showed the distribution of disease in the eastern region of...
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By: Maya Garcia First celebrated in the United States in 1970, Earth Day is now recognized worldwide each year on April 22nd. The holiday was founded by Gaylord Nelson, a former senator from Wisconsin, after he witnessed the after-effects of...
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