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...

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. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New blog post on @mapterhorn.com - terrain for web mapping protomaps.com/blog/mapterh...

Tennis vs. pickleball: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds #mapshaper #turfjs #flubber #svelte5 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hurricane Erin this morning: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators w/ Hiroko Tabuchi 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A very manual @protomaps.com to print pipeline. Always excited to get something in print 🗞️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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

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

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.

📊 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...

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.

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...

Animated some dust moving across the atlantic for this story with @amyjeangraff.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...

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/...

The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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

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: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Live-updating mini globe on the home page over the weekend w/ @jkeefe.bsky.social

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” 🧪

Made two animated globes using gdal, ffmpeg, and ai2html for this story (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...

Fantastic charts by the @upshot.nytimes.com's @aatishb.bsky.social + Irineo Cabreros summing up Trump's first 100 days. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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.

Reprojected a bunch of the #shadedreliefarchive for the web: willymaps.github.io/shadedrelief/

An interactive exploration: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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.

Rainfall from this past weekend: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/w...

Some recent maps built with @maplibre.org @protomaps.com

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

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...

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...

Latest interactive work: How the South Korean President's Military Takeover Attempt Fell Apart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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/...

🚨 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

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

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/

Any freelance Svelte/data visualization developers among my followers? Looking for someone with some availability, starting in a couple of months

5/7 🚀 Animating trip data in Lonboard developmentseed.org/blog/2024-12...

California wildfire maps: Tracking the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area.

Bumped an old #turfjs project that draws extruded arcs to the @maplibre.org v5 globe: willymaps.github.io/arcs/arc.html

You can click on the dropdown menus in the article and see many possible scenarios. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New story out today, with Chris Flavelle, based on home insurance nonrenewal data from this Senate Budget Committee investigation: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁  https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

NASA's Lucy mission will visit Earth this weekend for a gravity assist that will send it to Jupiter's trojan asteroids. At its closest, It will pass about 250 miles above California, similar to the altitude of the ISS. But Lucy will be in Earth's shadow then.

Residents along the Northern California coast were rattled on Thursday by an earthquake centered off the coast south of Eureka, prompting a tsunami warning that's since been canceled. Over a dozen aftershocks were reported after the initial quake. nyti.ms/4f5GKdS

Millions of people across the Midwest and Northeast in the U.S., as well as in southern Ontario, Canada, were under winter weather warnings Thursday morning as snow squalls moved through ahead of another blast of Arctic temperatures.

A hydraulic erosion simulation, but it's a bit finicky and unstable and I'm not super happy with it. Try it live here: observablehq.com/@rreusser/hy...