Anyone living in a major U.S. city for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in new NASA satellite images unveiled this week that demonstrate the reduction of air pollution across the country. After ten years in orbit, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite has been […]
GaugeMap Brings River Data to Life for the First Time via Twitter
Large-Scale Project Creates 1000s of New Twitter Accounts, Makes Big Data Digestible, for UK’s Natural Waterways
Seattle Sounders FC Visualizes Player Data with Tableau
Major League Soccer Club leverages data to analyze players’ fitness and readiness and maintain health throughout the season
Track Hurricane Arthur as it Threatens Mid-Atlantic with Live Esri Map
Esri’s Hurricane Public Information Map is available for the media to embed or share as part of ongoing storm coverage. You can explore the storm’s projected path and live storm warnings from NOAA overlaid on geotagged social media from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Instagram.
Redfin Maps International World Cup Fandom across the U.S
Today Redfin (www.redfin.com), the customer-first real estate brokerage, released an infographic that connects each of the 31 non-U.S. countries participating in the 2014 World Cup with a U.S. city that has many residents who were born there. The graphic illustrates where there are likely to be pockets of people from other countries rooting for their […]
New York to LA: History of America’s Maps in One App
Redlands, California—July 1, 2014—Two of the nation’s most authoritative mapping sources, the U.S. Geological Survey and Esri, have partnered to put the rich tapestry of U.S. Historical Maps into the hands of everyone. Available in time for the Fourth of July and able to be accessed on all digital devices, the USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer brings to life more than 178,000 […]
MapLight Launches Interactive Maps to Track Campaign Contributions & Votes by Geographical Location
June 19, 2014—MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that tracks the influence of money in politics, announces the launch of an extensive mapping project examining the geographic origin of contributions to legislators by state; contributions from companies to legislators by state; and roll call votes by state and district on key bills in Congress. For the first […]
Are You Ready for Some Futbol? A Panoramic View of the World Cup with Esri Story Maps
The 2014 FIFA World Cup begins later this week in Brazil, and Esri has created a collection of interactive maps to enhance the perspective of the world’s largest sporting event. 2014 US World Cup Roster Explore the hometowns of the 23 men named to Team USA’s roster and learn more about their professional soccer experience. […]
Enhanced Sea-level Prediction System to Improve Coastal Flooding Plans
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – As the Gulf Coast begins another hurricane season, researchers with the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will be improving the data collection system to allow for more accurate planning and predictions for flooding and sea level rise. CBI has been awarded $1.35 million […]
The Internet live, in one real-time infographic
The Internet is a big, big, big place. In the 200 seconds I watched the “Internet in real-time” infographic, Google ran almost a million searches and sucked up over $300,000 in revenue. Facebook users uploaded over a terabyte of data, liked something over 10.5 million times, and posted 11 million items.People watched 78,385 hours of Netflix […]