PolarGlobe: 4D Climate Data Visualization

PolarGlobal interactive website offers data visualization for multiple types of scientific data  from  U.S. Geological Survey in North Arctic.

New ICPSR Studies October 21, 2018

New Additions

• 37055 Pilot Study of State and Federal Digital Evidence Laboratories, [United States], 2014
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37055.v1
• 37143 Impact of the NYC Sugar Sweetened Beverage Policy on Calories Purchased and Consumed: Data on Fast Food Purchases, Dietary Patterns, and Retail Beverage Environments in New York City, Newark, and Jersey City, 2013-2014
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37143.v1

Updates

• 9645 Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, November 1989
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09645.v2
• 30501 Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), 2001-2003: Visit 05 Dataset
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30501.v2
• 34603 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2011: Extract Files
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34603.v2
  
  

An Atlas of Thinking: Mapping by Middle School Students

An Atlas of Thinking

Educators  foster  map-based geographic way of thinking in middle schools and aim to enable anyone to communicate these ideas by making their own maps. Supported by Out of Eden Walk, Jeff Blossom, cartographer at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University, went into schools across the northeastern U.S. to teach digital cartography. 

      “Everything happens somewhere, and mapping ‘where’ leads to greater understanding.”

Examples include students creating an earthquake and volcano map in Google Earth.

Map of Every Building in America

New York Times creates an  interactive map to explore every building in the U.S.

What did they discover?

"We found fascinating patterns in the arrangements of buildings. Traditional road maps highlight streets and highways; here they show up as a linear absence."

Article: 'ICE IS EVERYWHERE': USING LIBRARY SCIENCE TO MAP THE SEPARATION CRISIS

This article includes a link to a Torn Apart "A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 “Zero Tolerance Policy” for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed."

NYT Data Visualization: Detailed New National Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children for Life

Last New York Times Interactive Map  projects expected adult household income for poor children who were raised in various places.

"Some places lift children out of poverty. Others trap them there. Now cities are trying to do something about the difference."  NYT Times October 1, 2018.