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NatGeo Mapmaker Interactive YouTube Help The URL to a YouTube video must be the full length url. To ensure you are using the correct URL, visit your video on youtube.com. The URL to your video will be in your browser's address (see photo for an example) FiveThirtyEight A Dead-Simple Tool That Lets Anyone Create Interactive Maps Data surrounds us. It’s everywhere, in the most micro sense (small gadgets that track calories we’ve burned, or how much water our plants need) to the most macro (analytics companies that can monitor, for instance, the health of entire populations). But there are precious few companies actively working on helping us make sense of all that data. Stamen is something of a brand-name in this area, having created a wealth of data visualizations that have been endlessly lauded and studied by those in the field. Click to Open Overlay Gallery The partnership with Tableau presented another hurdle: typically, when Stamen designs a map, they know how the client will use it. But the entire point of Tableau’s software update is to create a sophisticated cartography tool for anyone. “Those guys are crazy,” Rodenbeck says of the Tableau team. “This is the stuff that’s happening in computer labs at Stanford, and now it’s consumer grade level. Tableau Public is available here for free. Go Back to Top.

Flu & Ebola Map | Virus & Contagious Disease Surveillance Chart Porn A Few Good Mapping and GIS Tools A map can be worth a thousand words. If you're looking for ways to create maps or to display geographic data, there are a number of software package that can help, from free ones to complex and powerful ones. We summarize the tools recommended by five nonprofit experts. Imagine that you want to show your constituents where they can buy fair-trade coffee, or represent to decision-makers the lack of doctors in a particular region of town. These things are hard to effectively convey in writing, but a map can be worth a thousand words. Enter GIS. A famous example of the power of maps comes from Dr. To understand which GIS tools might be useful for displaying and understanding your geographic data, we interviewed five nonprofit GIS specialists about the tools that best fit nonprofit needs. Start By Setting Priorities GIS tools range widely in complexity and in the features they offer. Set Goals. With your basic priorities defined, you can look for a tool that will meet your needs. Google Maps

DengueMap Marker Color Marker color reflects the noteworthiness of events at a particular location during a given time window. An event's degree of noteworthiness is based on the significance rating of the alert provided by HealthMap users. In the absence of user ratings, the system assigns a composite score based on the disease importance and the news volume associated with the alert. If a location's marker has multiple alerts, the color associated with the most prominent alert is used. Marker Size The large circle indicates a country-level alert, while state, province and local alerts are indicated by the small circle.

Best of the visualization web At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I've come across during the previous month. Here's the latest collection from January 2018. Visualisations & Infographics Includes static and interactive visualisation examples, infographics and galleries/collections of relevant imagery. SRF | 'Roger Federer: 20 Years, 20 Titles' Mapping Police Violence | '2017 Police Violence Report... collected data on over 1,100 killings by police in 2017.' SCMP | '2017: the safest skies record' SCMP | ... and here's a photo of the print version Economics | 'All the president’s tweets' Pixel Mixer | 'Anatomy of a Viz - The Level is in the Details' Mike Vizneros | 'A Chamber Divided: What We Can Learn By Using BioFabric Charts' Taylor Baldwin | 'Audiofabric' Guardian | 'Bussed out: How America moves its homeless' Twitter | 'A climate change cross stitch' Guardian | 'How the NHS winter beds crisis is hitting patient care'

MapWindow Open Source GIS - Home Page Live flight tracker! The Functional Art A Few Good Mapping and GIS Tools A map can be worth a thousand words. If you're looking for ways to create maps or to display geographic data, there are a number of software package that can help, from free ones to complex and powerful ones. We summarize the tools recommended by five nonprofit experts. Imagine that you want to show your constituents where they can buy fair-trade coffee, or represent to decision-makers the lack of doctors in a particular region of town. Perhaps you want to communicate the disparities of housing levels and heath indicators across different counties, or show the impact of polluted rivers on the surrounding environment. These things are hard to effectively convey in writing, but a map can be worth a thousand words. Enter GIS. A famous example of the power of maps comes from Dr. To understand which GIS tools might be useful for displaying and understanding your geographic data, we interviewed five nonprofit GIS specialists about the tools that best fit nonprofit needs. Set Goals. Google Maps

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