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At EcoWest we are working on some graphics to show snowpack across the country. Here’s one I’ve built for California:

A few months ago, we had a housewarming party and about 30 guests, mostly people roughly my age living in San Francisco, attended. I put a map of the world on the wall, and we asked people to mark each … Continue reading →

I recently combined all of the GPS files from our ~1000-mile 26-day bike trip this past summer and uploaded them into Google Earth. The result is a path that you can “fly over” and follow. Google Earth also allowed me … Continue reading →

This weekend I taught myself how to use this javascript library MooCirclePack, which allows one to tightly arrange circles of various radii (yes, it was an exciting weekend). Below are the U.S. states, with the area of each circle proportional … Continue reading →

A few weeks back I made the following map to show the religious population in each state, drawing on statistics from Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The data is from 2008. A few things jump out at you: … Continue reading →