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Ok so maybe not as advertised, but the above map tool was put together for the Department for Transport in London.  It gives you sliders that let you cover areas of the map based on length of commute and median household price.  I’d love to see one of these for NYC

This article from the Economist shows three of the better charts ever made, all made in the 1800’s. The one above was partly made by Florence Nightingale.

This is an issue I’m pretty committed to, and sadly I think about a month too late on (Mr. Steel feel free to comment). The farm subsidy program in this country is a total disaster. Huge enormous amounts of money go to farmers (and actually to corporations as well) to support the production of crops we don’t really need, while small to mid-size farmers who want to care for the environment and the people they feed struggle to make a living. The above map is a great example, it shows recipients of farm subsidies in Manhattan. Sadly I think this legislation which comes up every 5 years just more or less got renewed, but I could be wrong. For more information on this you can look around The Food Projects’ website (this is a shameless plug for an organization that I worked for for two years, and think is A-mazing).

The above map of the was produced using a reference photo and has topographical elevations and geographical features that correlate to those in the actual brain.

The folks who made half-life 2 embedded some reporting code that allowed them to map where people die on the different game maps. There are some other stats along with them, but i like the deathmaps best.

Amazing “graphs” of rap songs.

Researchers at Columbia made a map of 160 different diseases to see how they overlapped.