William B. Davis
@willbdavis.bsky.social
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Graphics editor
@nytimes.com
weather. Formerly
@mapbox.com
https://williambdavis.ca/
pinned post!
Animated some dust moving across the atlantic for this story with
@amyjeangraff.bsky.social
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Tracking snowfall around Lake Michigan overnight and into today w/
@nazaneentv.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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relaunched a freezing temperature tracker for this season. Check it out here:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Mira Rojanasakul
13 days ago
Been obsessed with local flood hotspots since my ground floor apartment flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Seems like a good day to share this beautiful look at NYC's flood risk and some solutions the city is exploring (feat. lovely
@nunderwood6.bsky.social
maps!):
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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New York Is Going to Flood. Here’s What the City Can Do to Survive.
Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/15/nyregion/new-york-climate-flooding-solutions.html
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Robert Simmon
16 days ago
12 hours of Hurricane
#Melissa
, one frame every minute. 🛰️🗺️
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Intensification of hurricane
#melissa
overnight
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Pablo Robles
20 days ago
I’ve spent years collecting tools, datasets, maps, and other interesting links I’ve come across through my work and passion. I’m organizing everything into one place: If you’d like to get it when it’s out, you can subscribe here:
pablorobles.substack.com/about
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The Upshot
20 days ago
From NYT Climate, via
@harrystevens.bsky.social
and
@bradplumer.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power
The United States was once the undisputed leader in atomic energy. Now it is trying to catch up.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/22/climate/china-us-nuclear-energy-race.html
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I've started processing NOAA's MRMS data to show near real-time storm impacts. Here's the latest from storm Imelda:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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about 1 month ago
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Mapping some recent double events
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about 1 month ago
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Robert Simmon
about 2 months ago
I just published a new installment of A Gentle Introduction to GDAL. It’s about visualizing time series data & automating tedious processing chains with shell scripting. No experience needed.
#cartography
#maps
#dataviz
medium.com/@robsimmon/a...
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A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 9: Automation with Bash
The main strength of GDAL is its command line foundation, which unlocks capabilities that are difficult to execute otherwise.
https://medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle-introduction-to-gdal-part-9-automation-with-bash-46a13c51faa5
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The Upshot
2 months ago
Zodiac signs were originally based on the stars. But over thousands of years, our view of the stars has shifted. That means, if you account for this shift, your sign might not be what you think.
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Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date
Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/upshot/zodiac-signs.html
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Protomaps
2 months ago
New blog post on
@mapterhorn.com
- terrain for web mapping
protomaps.com/blog/mapterh...
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The Upshot
2 months ago
Tennis vs. pickleball:
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Pickleball Courts Taking Over Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky
Aerial photographs show what’s happening all over the country: There’s only so much asphalt, and pickleball can’t get enough of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/01/upshot/pickleball.html
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Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds
#mapshaper
#turfjs
#flubber
#svelte5
🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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3 months ago
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Hurricane Erin this morning:
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3 months ago
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Mira Rojanasakul
3 months ago
At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators w/ Hiroko Tabuchi 🎁🔗:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Environmental Concerns at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Include Storms and Flooding (Gift Article)
The area around the immigrant detention center, deep in the Everglades, is threatened by hurricanes, extreme heat and even wildfires.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/08/04/climate/alligator-alcatraz-hurricanes-storms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk8.I_FI.qGD9sTBpIMJu&smid=url-share
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A very manual
@protomaps.com
to print pipeline. Always excited to get something in print 🗞️
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
4 months ago
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Marco Hernández
4 months ago
A story in 9 maps to explain what weather experts call “flash flood month.” 🎁 link:
nyti.ms/44PpkiD
| great work by my colleagues
@willbdavis.bsky.social
,
@sonofjud.bsky.social
and
@wallacetim.bsky.social
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Here's Why There's So Much Flash Flooding in the U.S. Right Now (Gift Article)
July’s hot temperatures and moist air are the perfect ingredients for rain.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/16/weather/flash-floods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W08.SHoI.pNN8hOlutydv&smid=url-share
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Development Seed
4 months ago
We’re hiring a senior-level Frontend Engineer! This role is about building tools that help people use Earth data to tackle real-world problems — from climate and conservation to disaster response and open science. Remote, open-source, and meaningful. Details + apply:
grnh.se/39qfi0m13us
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Bora Erden
4 months ago
We interviewed neighbors and former workers, as well as reviewed dozens of photos, videos, recent and historical satellite and aerial imagery of mass grave sites. My colleague Charlie Smart reported from Damascus and captured one remaining trench with photogrammetry.
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Datawrapper
4 months ago
📊 Here’s a colorful preview of this week’s Data Vis Dispatch! Topics include oil tanker traffic, NYC elections, and the global race for renewable energy 🔋
www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...
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The New York Times
5 months ago
The first day of the Atlantic hurricane season came and went on June 1 without a named storm. Three weeks in, there still hasn’t been a named storm. That is both unusual, and not. Here's why.
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This Hurricane Season Is One of the Slowest to Start in 20 Years
The Atlantic season began officially on June 1. Three weeks in, there still hasn’t been a named storm.
https://trib.al/ZrRt3B1
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The Upshot
5 months ago
About a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/c...
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See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/climate/see-how-marine-heat-waves-are-spreading-across-the-globe.html
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Animated some dust moving across the atlantic for this story with
@amyjeangraff.bsky.social
:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...
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5 months ago
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The Upshot
5 months ago
Remember the 2015 internet debate about whether the dress was blue and black, or white and gold? I'm a bumps and bumps person on this one. Give it a try.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Do You See Craters or Bumps on the Moon’s Surface?
A picture taken recently by a Japanese company’s spacecraft shows how your interpretation of objective reality can be tested by the power of illusion.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/science/craters-bumps-moon-quiz.html
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The Upshot
6 months ago
The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html
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Judson Jones
6 months ago
Four National Weather Service offices have gone dark at night, and more service reductions are temporarily planned because of the significant cuts this year, which are stretching meteorologists thin. But could these cuts also kickstart a modernization plan?
nyti.ms/3YOf6wN
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The Weather Service Had a Plan to Reinvent Itself. Did DOGE Stop It? (Gift Article)
The U.S. forecasting agency was working on streamlining itself for the modern era. Days away from hurricane season, it’s now struggling to keep offices open.
https://nyti.ms/3YOf6wN
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Emily Badger
6 months ago
Policy changes often take years to show results. And then there is congestion pricing in New York. Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect:
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Just About Everything That’s Changed Since Congestion Pricing Took Effect (Gift Article)
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Gk8.e2QK.8WlNYjyho3bn&smid=url-share
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Live-updating mini globe on the home page over the weekend w/
@jkeefe.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Wanmei L 🌎🛰️
6 months ago
After a slow-moving weather system swamped the Midwest U.S. in early April 2025, many rivers’ water levels soared to near-historic levels. Arkansas was particularly hard hit. “This is one of the largest, most dramatic, and long-lasting agricultural floods we’ve seen in Arkansas in decades” 🧪
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Made two animated globes using gdal, ffmpeg, and ai2html for this story (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...
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6 months ago
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Karen Yourish
7 months ago
Fantastic charts by the
@upshot.nytimes.com
's
@aatishb.bsky.social
+ Irineo Cabreros summing up Trump's first 100 days.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Eight Charts That Sum Up Trump’s First 100 Days
By many measures, the opening months of President Trump’s second term stand apart from those of essentially any modern president.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/29/upshot/trump-100-days-charts.html
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John Keefe
7 months ago
Join me for an updated version of my online mapping course with
@knightcenter.utexas.edu
... go at your own pace, chat in the class forums and drop in for live office hours.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Reprojected a bunch of the
#shadedreliefarchive
for the web:
willymaps.github.io/shadedrelief/
7 months ago
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The Upshot
7 months ago
An interactive exploration:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Much Vaccination Stops a Measles Outbreak?
An interactive explanation of outbreaks, vaccines and herd immunity.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/12/upshot/measles-herd-immunity-explainer.html?smid=bsky-upshot
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The New York Times
7 months ago
Tens of thousands of homes in the New York City area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, a new report warns.
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In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York Area May Be Lost to Flooding
The metro region’s housing shortage is acute. But by 2040, dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs are likely to have lost thousands of homes to floods, a new report found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/nyregion/climate-change-housing-crisis-new-york-city.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Rainfall from this past weekend:
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7 months ago
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Some recent maps built with
@maplibre.org
@protomaps.com
7 months ago
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The New York Times
8 months ago
Countries around the world are rapidly adding solar and wind capacity, now cheaper and more reliable than ever, a new analysis shared with The New York Times shows. Here's a country-by-country snapshot of existing clean-energy capacity on land, and where there’s room to grow.
nyti.ms/4bIgfeH
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Robert Simmon
8 months ago
1st day of (Northern Hemisphere) spring, so time to re-re-re-post the best
#dataviz
I’ve ever done. 365 images of the terminator taken at exactly 6:00 a.m. over the course of a year. Originally made for the NASA Earth Observatory:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52248...
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Choosing colours for cloud cover percentage wasn't easy, but happy with how this monochrome version turned out for the recent lunar eclipse – direct labels seemed to help
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/s...
8 months ago
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Pablo Robles
8 months ago
Latest interactive work: How the South Korean President's Military Takeover Attempt Fell Apart
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Aatish Bhatia
8 months ago
30 charts that show how everything changed in the U.S. in March 2020. My new piece with Irineo Cabreros
@upshot.nytimes.com
Here's a paywall-free link:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html?smid=bs-share
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The Copernicus Marine Service
9 months ago
🚨 1 week left to register for our #Dataviz webinar❗️ Join our keynote speaker, @tjukanov, as he shares tips & tricks for creating impactful visualisations using marine data Find out more about the agenda 👇
events.marine.copern...
#Dataviz
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Mira Rojanasakul
9 months ago
NEW data finds nearly a third of coal-powered units delayed or canceled retirement plans in recent years. A 2023 study found that 99% of operating U.S. coal plants were more expensive to run than the cost of building renewable replacements. 🎁:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
w/ Austyn Gaffney
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Datawrapper
9 months ago
A tragic plane crash, a turnaround for Barnes & Noble, and political drama in Germany — find these and more covered in our Data Vis Dispatch this week 📈 ➡️
https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-february-4-2025/
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Maarten Lambrechts
9 months ago
Any freelance Svelte/data visualization developers among my followers? Looking for someone with some availability, starting in a couple of months
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Development Seed
10 months ago
5/7 🚀 Animating trip data in Lonboard
developmentseed.org/blog/2024-12...
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The New York Times
10 months ago
California wildfire maps: Tracking the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area.
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Maps: Tracking Southern California Wildfires
See the latest extent of the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/08/weather/los-angeles-fire-maps-california.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Bumped an old
#turfjs
project that draws extruded arcs to the
@maplibre.org
v5 globe:
willymaps.github.io/arcs/arc.html
10 months ago
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