On New Year's Day, I posted the Maps Mania round-up of the 2024 Year in Maps. I am not the only one who has spent time exploring the best maps of 2024.
The Global Investigative Journalism Network's Top 10 Data Journalism Projects of 2024 included maps from Hungary's Atlo, Japan's Nikkei, and Germany's netzpolitik.
Atló's Danube Warming Up uses a Mapbox story-map to visualize the effects of global warming on Europe's second-longest river. The project presents multiple visualizations of how global heating has impacted the Danube and its broader watershed. For example, the map above illustrates the river, color-coded along its length, based on annual average temperature increases between 2010 and 2020.
What Happened When the JAL Plane Caught Fire
In January, Japanese newspaper Nikkei created an impressive - and harrowing - mapped re-enactment of a plane collision in Tokyo.
On January 2, 2024, Japan Airlines Flight 516 (JAL516) collided with a plane operated by the Japan Coast Guard.The interactive project, What Happened When the JAL Plane Caught Fire, used Google Earth imagery to create a 3D reconstruction of the crash. This reconstruction is incorporated into a story-map to explain the sequence of events that led to the collision.
In July
Bayerischer Rundfunk and
netzpolitik published a joint investigation into the global trade of location data.
In
Under Surveillance, Bayerischer Rundfunk revealed how location data from mobile phones is openly sold on the market. Alarmingly, this data included the locations of U.S. spies working in Germany. By analyzing the data of individuals spending most of their working hours at a U.S. military base in Germany, the broadcasters identified an individual working in the "Tin Can," a building used for U.S. internet surveillance. Using this data, they were even able to determine the spy’s home address in Germany.
In 2024, NASA launched Your Name in Landsat, a playful tool that uses satellite imagery to spell out names with Earth features captured in Landsat images. Users can type their names into the tool to see them "written" in massive, natural shapes on Earth and even download these unique visualizations.
The German Foreign Office released an interactive map in 2024 visualizing climate and conflict risks worldwide. The Climate Conflict Vulnerability Index Map identifies regions where climate change and conflicts are likely to converge, highlighting areas with particularly vulnerable populations.
In October, The Pudding published a diagrammatic cartogram of the United States titled The United States of Abortion. In this innovative cartogram, each state is represented by a small maze, symbolizing the difficulties women now face when navigating abortion policies in each state.
If you want to explore even more of 2024's best data visualizations then the Datawrapper's
Data Vis Lists, 2024 consists of a comprehensive round-up of data viz round-ups published by some of the internet's best data visualization teams and individuals.
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