How a Beaver Became a Twitter Star
A geoscientist crafts a viral research video with a little bit of patience and a whole lot of felt.
Tagged: Visualization
The Violent Environments of the Mexico-U.S. Border
An artist honors the struggles of undocumented immigrants in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands and shows the emotional and environmental toll of immigration policies.
Apocalypse in Watercolor
To reach a broader audience, one artist and physical scientist takes data on environmental catastrophe and renders it beautiful.
What Would States Look Like If They Made Sense?
A new interactive web map allows you to explore a reimagined geography of the United States based on socially connected commuter megaregions generated using big data.
New Maps Shed Light on German Soldiers’ Lives
A historian finds that making maps can be invaluable when tracing the paths of research subjects, and that ArcGIS can be a useful tool even for scholars with little formal training or experience in cartography.
Edgy Stuff: National Parks Centennial Edition
The Edge Effects Editorial Board’s September recommendations feature content on the National Parks from around the web and beyond for the parks’ Centennial.
Edgy Stuff: May 2016 Recommendations
May 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Learning Cartography; or, a Gallery of Awesome Maps
Exploring family farms, racial inequality, sea monsters, and much more, student mapmakers gain new understandings of place.
Edgy Stuff: April 2016 Recommendations
April 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
From Lines to Stories: New Visualizations of Syria’s Borders
The Mapping Borders project rethinks Syria’s borders, adding individual experiences and stories to the “line.”
