“Data GIF Maker, launched on 25 May, is a free online tool that can be used to create visual representations comparing data on two different subjects, for example.” — ...

Government is learning what open data means one step at a time. And on June 11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took a large step forward in its own open data efforts by releasing a new ...

Using data from the widely circulated Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracking map, a cross-disciplinary team of JHU researchers recently began developing an array of new data visualization tools to help ...

When linguist Lauren Gawne roams the valleys of Nepal documenting endangered Tibetan languages, she takes pains to distinguish each dialect's geographical origin. But when it came to producing maps of ...

You may not be aware, but Uber offers an open source version of the data visualization framework it uses internally, called deck.gl. The tool was made available to ...

Data nerds are loving subways on Reddit these days. Subway maps aren’t really designed as accurate reflections of geography. They are designed to help people get around and they are made to fit onto ...

DeepSeek R1, the latest large language model to be creating a stir with its outstanding open source performance, is reshaping how you can approach complex tasks such as mapping and data visualization.

Flip through ten pages of this issue of Nature, and your eyes will be drawn to headlines and images. In our information-thick, data-supported world, optimal representation is key. Yet many scientists ...

Our friends over at InData Labs with support of Datasia.hk provides our Visualization of the Week with an interactive map of Hong Kong that visualizes all the Instagram activity of the city. The map ...

Tesla introduced new features in China with the 2023.44.32 software update, and among them is a cool 3D map view that baffled Americans. Many would want to see this coming to the US, but since this is ...