William B. Davis
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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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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...
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Mira Rojanasakul
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No time like a holiday deadline to learn MapLibre and how to run a cron job for the first time š (with a big assist from
@willbdavis.bsky.social
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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...
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The Upshot
11 days ago
From NYT National:
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The Complex Deportation Network Behind Trumpās Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trumpās immigration crackdown.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/trump-immigration-deportation-network-ice-arrests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-08.3Qnh.fTiXYF3FT4vY&smid=url-share
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Will You Have a White Christmas This Year? š
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Tim Wallace
19 days ago
Bringing back the bugle mountains with this work in progress.
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Tom Weatherburn
24 days ago
Fun little exploratory project. I mapped transit oriented surface parking lots in NYC and applied recent development densities to estimate housing potential. Link at the end.
#NYC
#Planning
#Dataviz
#mapping
#maps
#map
#housing
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Bora Erden
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A Dead Glacier Is a Loss. A Dying One Is a Threat.
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A Dead Glacier Is a Loss. A Dying One Is a Threat. (Gift Article)
Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/14/climate/glacier-melt-himalayas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.kJo4.iYJAArwhC2fW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Tracking snowfall around Lake Michigan overnight and into today w/
@nazaneentv.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
about 2 months ago
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@nytweather.bsky.social
relaunched a freezing temperature tracker for this season. Check it out here:
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Mira Rojanasakul
2 months 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. Hereās 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
2 months ago
12 hours of Hurricane
#Melissa
, one frame every minute. š°ļøšŗļø
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Intensification of hurricane
#melissa
overnight
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Pablo Robles
2 months ago
Iāve spent years collecting tools, datasets, maps, and other interesting links Iāve come across through my work and passion. Iām organizing everything into one place: If youād like to get it when itās out, you can subscribe here:
pablorobles.substack.com/about
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The Upshot
2 months ago
From NYT Climate, via
@harrystevens.bsky.social
and
@bradplumer.bsky.social
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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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3 months ago
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Mapping some recent double events
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3 months ago
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Robert Simmon
4 months ago
I just published a new installment of A Gentle Introduction to GDAL. Itās 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
4 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 Earthās wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/upshot/zodiac-signs.html
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Protomaps
4 months ago
New blog post on
@mapterhorn.com
- terrain for web mapping
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The Upshot
4 months ago
Tennis vs. pickleball:
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Pickleball Courts Taking Over Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky
Aerial photographs show whatās happening all over the country: Thereās only so much asphalt, and pickleball canāt 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
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Hurricane Erin this morning:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Mira Rojanasakul
5 months ago
At āAlligator Alcatraz,ā the Biggest Risk Isnāt Alligators w/ Hiroko Tabuchi šš:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Environmental Concerns at āAlligator Alcatrazā 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 šļø
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6 months ago
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Marco HernƔndez
6 months ago
A story in 9 maps to explain what weather experts call āflash flood month.ā š link:
nyti.ms/44PpkiD
| great work by my colleagues
@willbdavis.bsky.social
,
@sonofjud.bsky.social
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@wallacetim.bsky.social
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Here's Why There's So Much Flash Flooding in the U.S. Right Now (Gift Article)
Julyās 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
6 months ago
Weāre hiring a senior-level Frontend Engineer! This role is about building tools that help people use Earth data to tackle real-world problems ā 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
6 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
6 months ago
šĀ Hereās a colorful preview of this weekās Data Vis Dispatch! Topics include oil tanker traffic, NYC elections, and the global race for renewable energy š
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The New York Times
7 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 hasnāt 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 hasnāt been a named storm.
https://trib.al/ZrRt3B1
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The Upshot
7 months ago
About a quarter of the worldās 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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The Upshot
7 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 Moonās Surface?
A picture taken recently by a Japanese companyās 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
8 months ago
The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness.
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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
8 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, itās now struggling to keep offices open.
https://nyti.ms/3YOf6wN
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Emily Badger
8 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 Thatās Changed Since Congestion Pricing Took Effect (Gift Article)
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still canāt 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
8 months ago
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Wanmei L šš°ļø
8 months ago
After a slow-moving weather system swamped the Midwest U.S. in early April 2025, many riversā water levels soared to near-historic levels. Arkansas was particularly hard hit. āThis is one of the largest, most dramatic, and long-lasting agricultural floods weāve seen in Arkansas in decadesā š§Ŗ
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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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Karen Yourish
8 months ago
Fantastic charts by the
@upshot.nytimes.com
's
@aatishb.bsky.social
+ Irineo Cabreros summing up Trump's first 100 days.
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Eight Charts That Sum Up Trumpās First 100 Days
By many measures, the opening months of President Trumpās 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
8 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/
9 months ago
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The Upshot
9 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
9 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 regionās 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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Some recent maps built with
@maplibre.org
@protomaps.com
9 months ago
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The New York Times
10 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 thereās room to grow.
nyti.ms/4bIgfeH
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Robert Simmon
10 months ago
1st day of (Northern Hemisphere) spring, so time to re-re-re-post the best
#dataviz
Iāve 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 ā direct labels seemed to help
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/s...
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Pablo Robles
10 months ago
Latest interactive work: How the South Korean President's Military Takeover Attempt Fell Apart
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Aatish Bhatia
10 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
11 months ago
šØ 1 week left to register for our #Dataviz webinarāļø Join our keynote speaker, @tjukanov, as he shares tips & tricks for creating impactful visualisations using marine data Find out more about the agenda š
events.marine.copern...
#Dataviz
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