The 2014 Footing Loving Cup Players Map

Yesterday I linked to the World Cup Birthplaces map which shows where every thespian competing inwards the 2014 World Cup was born. The 2014 World Cup Players' Places of Birth map, made amongst CartoDB as well as Kimonlabs, is a ameliorate visualization of the same data.

The 2014 World Cup Players' Places of Birth map truly allows you lot to pick out to persuasion simply the birthplaces of players for each private team. This provides a much less cluttered persuasion of the data, enabling you lot run into to a greater extent than clearly the locations where each team's players were born.

Brazil Vs Croatia - The Twitter Map

Last night's opening game inwards the World Cup betwixt Brazil together with Republic of Croatia was watched past times football game fans roughly the world. In 150 of those countries football game fans also took to Twitter to beak virtually the game.

Brazil v Croatia: how the maiden jibe played out on Twitter is some other keen event of a CartoDB animated map of Tweets. Brazil powerfulness convey been lucky to convey won end night's opening game only they were the clear winners of the Twitter conversations taking house roughly the game.

I similar how the goals together with other of import moments during the game convey been added to the timeline on this map. This does supply some context to the evolving patterns on the map.

Heat Vs Spurs - Oestrus Map

Congratulations to the San Antonio Spurs on winning the NBA entitle on Sabbatum night. More importantly congratulations on winning the inevitable CartoDB animated map of worldwide Twitter mentions.

The #NBAfinals map visualizes Tweets mentioning San Antonio Spurs as well as Miami Heat before, during as well as afterward the terminal entitle game. Despite some early on back upward for the Heat during their early on Pb the map shows that overall at that topographic point were far to a greater extent than mentions for the Spurs.

This is quite a plough but about for the Spurs. Check out the 2013 NBA Playoffs Twitter map from CartoDB which seems to exhibit that during finally year's NBA entitle finals the Miami Heat were the to a greater extent than pop squad on Twitter.

The European Loving Cup End Map

Last calendar week I was impressed yesteryear the Twitter FA Cup Final 2014 map. This CartoDB Torque powered map visualized the global Twitter mentions for the ii competing teams before, during as well as afterwards the English linguistic communication FA Cup Final. We straightaway accept an fifty-fifty improve animated Twitter map of the European Cup concluding betwixt Real Madrid as well as Atlético Madrid.

Essentially the Real Madrid v Atlético Madrid: #UCL final map follows the same approach equally the FA Cup Final map. It provides an animated estrus map of Tweets made unopen to the globe mentioning either of the ii teams, during the 120 minutes of the game. However the add-on of a uncomplicated time-line helps to brand this map far to a greater extent than engaging than the FA Cup Final map.

The time-line running along the bottom of the map highlights cardinal moments during the game (goals, yellowish cards & substitutions). This helps to contextualize the results shown on the map. Scroll the time-line to '21:26' as well as y'all tin encounter that the explosion of carmine on the map was caused yesteryear Atlético Madrid's opening goal. Similarly if y'all scroll the time-line to '22:38' y'all tin encounter that Real Madrid's equalizer resulted inwards a huge explosion of Tweets mentioning the team.

The Real Madrid v Atlético Madrid: #UCL concluding map is a groovy demonstration of CartoDB's Torque library. It shows how an animated map coupled alongside a uncomplicated time-line tin render a rattling powerful tool for exploring rattling large information sets over time.

The Sun Rises On Planet Earth

This is a clever animated map showing the deadening eastward drive of the Sun to a greater extent than or less the footing during ane day. The map equally good animates through the locations of Twitter messages, which include the give-and-take 'sunrise', sent during the same 24-hour interval .

The Sunrise Around the World map shows a flashing yellowish delineate of piece of occupation of Tweets next the maiden off of the 24-hour interval to a greater extent than or less the world, equally people react amongst joy to the abrupt appearance of the morn sun. Although it must move said that at that topographic point are equally good a lot of Twitter users talking close the sunrise at other times of the day.

(BTW - I tried swapping out 'sunrise' for 'sunset; inward the URL in addition to it looks similar the inevitable sunset map has notwithstanding to move released).

Mapping The Growing Ascent Of Novel York

The Accidental Skyline is a good designed map of New York showing the Floor Area Ratio of edifice lots. The map is designed to highlight where novel evolution could happen across the city.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quirk of New York City planning regulations allows for the transfer of unused evolution rights from i site to approximately other evolution site. The transfer of these air rights allows buildings to conk taller in addition to bigger than the metropolis zoning code otherwise allows.

Using the map you lot tin laissez passer the sack conduct private edifice lots on the map to persuasion the available edifice rights in addition to cheque to meet if the lot has been combined amongst other lots. Lots amongst evolution rights are shaded yellowish to red. You tin laissez passer the sack likewise conduct to persuasion historic districts on the map (a component subdivision which may likewise influence what tin laissez passer the sack live on built on a site).

This Caged Plane Could Sing

After an frequently traumatic childhood Maya Angelou grew-up to alive an amazingly total in addition to successful life. She was non solely 1 of America's greatest writers, she was likewise a successful dancer, singer, actress in addition to teacher.

You tin larn to a greater extent than virtually Angelou's extraordinary life amongst this mapped biography. Maya Angelou - Life is an elegant map of 35 fundamental moments inwards Maya Angelou's life, from her nascency inwards St Louis, Missouri inwards 1928 to her expiry on May 28th inwards Winston-Salem.

The map furnish a uncomplicated chronological insight into the life of Maya Angelou. Use the forrad in addition to dorsum buttons to progress through the mapped biography. As you lot progress through the even out of Angelou's life the map automatically pans in addition to zooms to the locations mentioned inwards her mapped biography.

The Urban Elders Of Seattle

The Seattle Times has created an interactive map of Nielsen demographic groups inwards Seattle.

The Nielsen Company categorizes people into 66 unlike demographic groups inwards club to help businesses target their marketing to a greater extent than effectively. By looking at the dominant groups inwards unlike neighborhoods the market-research company tin spot the axe than infer generalized characteristics of the local residents.

The Seattle Times' What Your Census Tract Says About You is an interactive map revealing the 2 most dominant Nielsen categories inwards each Seattle neighborhood. Click on a Seattle neighborhood together with you lot tin spot the axe honour out what Nielsen thinks nearly the people who alive there.


These Nielsen categories advise that in that place may live on a futurity for Judgemental Maps inside the marketing world. These stereotype maps may non live on quite also researched every bit Nielsen's neighborhood categories simply I'm certain they are made amongst much to a greater extent than existent local knowledge.

Looking at the 2 maps higher upwards in that place does to live on unopen to course of didactics of understanding betwixt the two. Where the judgmental map has 'Republicans' the Seattle Times has 'Executive Suites' together with where the judgmental map has 'Single Girls Drinking Wine' the Seattle Times has 'Bohemian Mix'

Two Libraries Looking For A Story

I'm yet convinced that animating Twitter information isn't the best agency to use CartoDB's Torque library. I'm too pretty sure that the Torque library isn't the best agency to map the electrical current Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I'm thence non overly impressed amongst Al Jazeera's map of Israeli-Palestinian conflict related Twitter messages. We hardly require an animated Twitter map to say us that the conflict is currently big word all roughly the world.

What is interesting virtually this map is that Torque is existence used hither inside CartoDB's Odyssey.js narrative mapping platform. To that extent the map is a expert representative of how Torque as well as Odyssey.js tin travel combined to practise an animated map of geo-tagged data, inwards which interesting stories inside the information tin travel highlighted on the map.

Combining the 2 libraries tin enable developers to practise real powerful animated maps of information as well as to genuinely explicate the stories as well as narratives that emerge from that data. Unfortunately at the minute the solely other representative I've seen of Torque as well as Odyssey.js combined is some other animated Twitter map - Ramadan: How the World Celebrates.

I'm fairly sure as shooting that old presently somebody is going to practise an amazing map amongst Torque as well as Odyssey.js. There is a lot of time-stamped geo-tagged information out at that spot only waiting for somebody to map using Torque & Odyssey.js. It's only non on Twitter.

Telling Mapped Stories Amongst Odyssey.Js

Over the terminal duad of years a set out of narrative mapping libraries bring emerged, which allow you lot to easily nation mapped stories. These libraries kicking the bucket inward slowly to practise a map alongside a structured narrative which users tin navigate through past times scrolling downward the page or past times using forrad together with dorsum arrows. As you lot progress through the storey text the maps automatically pan together with zoom to highlight the locations mentioned the narrative

Esri's Story Maps is i of the close pop narrative mapping platforms together with has been widely used past times a set out of paper websites to practise interactive mapped reports on of import intelligence stories. Odyssey.js from CartoDB is about other storey map library which is directly likewise gaining about traction on about of the world's leading websites.


This calendar week CartoDB has been showcasing about of the best examples of narrative maps built alongside Odyssey.js. Odyssey.js: Examples inward the Wild reports on 5 interesting storey maps created alongside the platform.

The New York Daily News' 48 Hours of Gun Violence uses Odyssey.js to map sixteen shooting incidents reported over a 48-hour menses inward New York. The map uses a Leaflet map alongside an overlay chemical component containing the written study on each incident.

Forward together with dorsum arrows allow the user to navigate through the mapped shooting incidents. As you lot progress through the study the map automatically updates to highlight the place of each incident.


The 2nd instance The Voyage of the Beagle maps the 2nd voyage of the famous survey send The Beagle together with the observations made past times a immature geologist called Charles Darwin.

This instance uses 2 kind out elements, i asset a Leaflet map together with the other asset the scroll-able text narrative of the Beagle's journey. As you lot scroll downward through the text chemical component the map automatically pans together with zooms to highlight the relevant locations mentioned inward the narrative.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 3rd map Gull Eric During Breeding Season uses nevertheless about other technique to progress through the mapped narrative. This fourth dimension the map uses a playback piece of occupation to automatically animate through the story.

Users tin intermission the animated playback at whatever fourth dimension to halt the map together with narrative at a item moment. It likewise possible to navigate to specific points inward the narrative using a time-line control.

The Spread Of The H2o Ice Bucket Challenge

Twitter has released some other 1 of those animated Tweet maps created amongst CartoDB's Torque library. The #IceBucketChallenge map shows how the viral craze for throwing a bucket of H2O ice mutual coldness H2O over your caput chop-chop spread across the world.

As amongst all these animated Twitter maps yous cause got to normalize the mapped information inwards your ain caput - as well as endeavour to cause got into work concern human relationship where Twitter has a lot of users as well as where Twitter is non widely used. However, fifty-fifty taking into work concern human relationship the problems amongst these Twitter maps, the #IceBucketChallenge map is however a pretty impressive visualization of how the Ice Bucket Challenge, which started inwards the USA, chop-chop spread simply about the world.

That's a lot of mutual coldness people as well as a lot of coin raised for charity.

Mapping The Global Terrorism Database

I of late suggested on Twitter that the Global Terrorism Database mightiness brand for a to a greater extent than interesting Torque animated map than all the Twitter related maps which convey been in addition to hence pop lately. The Global Terrorism Database is an open-source database of terrorist attacks unopen to the basis from 1970 through 2013.

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism in addition to Responses to Terrorism, who hold the database, mightiness convey been listening because they convey only released an Odyssey powered map of terrorist events unopen to the basis inwards 2013.

Global Terrorism, 2013 is an animated map of terrorist attacks unopen to the basis from Jan of 2013 through to the destination of the year. As the map animation plays terrorist events are added to the map inwards chronological fellowship on the appointment they occurred. During the animation notable events, such every bit the Boston Marathon Bombings, the siege on the BP gas complex inwards Algeria, the killing of a British soldier inwards London in addition to the killing of 72 innocent shoppers at the Westgate Mall inwards Nairobi are highlighted on the map in addition to reported on inwards the map sidebar.

The map paints a depressing motion painting of terrorist activeness unopen to the world. Particular hot-spots of terrorist activeness tin plow over notice hold upward clearly identified on the map. For example Afghanistan, Pakistan, North-East Asia, Somalia, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria in addition to Republic of Colombia all suffered from a disproportionate sum of terrorist activeness during 2013.


The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism in addition to Responses to Terrorism has too released an impressive WebGL globe visualization plotting the place in addition to frequency of yearly terrorist attacks from 1970-2013.

The WebGL GTD Globe allows yous to conduct whatever yr in addition to visualize terrorist activeness unopen to the basis during that yr on a 3d globe. The countries which suffered from the close terrorist activeness inwards each yr are listed inwards the map sidebar, amongst details on the disclose of attacks in addition to the disclose of fatalities.

Hacking Together With Mapping Citibike Data

CartoDB's Map of the Week is this calendar week an interesting tutorial on how to hack the Citibike website to recollect as well as map your Citibike journeys (this is through your ain log-in hence I assume & promise you lot tin alone access your ain data).

The tutorial shows you lot how to recollect your Citibike information as well as and hence animate your wheel rides over fourth dimension using the Torque library. The tutorial includes ii animated maps of ii dissimilar Citibike users' wheel data. As you lot play each map the cyclists' rides are added to the map over fourth dimension to visualize all the places that they bring ridden to using Citibikes.

The tutorial provides a cracking bespeak to whatever frequent Citibike user inwards New York who wants to visualize their usage of the city's wheel sharing organisation as well as where they bring ridden to inwards the city.

Inxs Unopen To The World

Here's the tertiary Torque powered map of the calendar week together with thankfully none of them are mapping Tweets. How INXS Conquered the World is a Torque powered Leaflet map which plots the touring schedule of the Australian band.

The map plots INXS's 2,145 gigs around the globe from 1977 until 2012. It is interesting to sentinel the map equally the band progresses from gigging inwards Sydney to touring Australia, moving on to touring the United States of America together with and thence onto Europe. As the map animation plays the band's album releases are added to the map timeline control.

Mapping Melbourne's Trees

The City of Melbourne has mapped the wellness of 70,000 of the city's trees using the CartoDB platform. The map uses information from a recent audit of the lifetime expectancy of each tree inward the urban centre to visualize where trees are almost at jeopardy inward Melbourne.

The Urban Forest Visual uses unlike colored markers to squall for the life expectancy of every tree. The shapes of the markers exhibit the species of tree mapped. It is possible to filter the map to exhibit all trees amongst less than 10 years life expectancy. It is too possible to filter the map to exhibit trees which convey been planted inward the end x years together with to exhibit common or street trees.

Mapping The Machine Thieves

How many cars were stolen inwards your neighborhood? is a CartoDB powered map of motorcar thefts inwards the Netherlands. The map shows the publish of cars stolen inwards each postcode expanse over the final half dozen months. The larger the circle marking the larger the publish of cars stolen.

The map reveals to a greater extent than or less interesting geographical patterns. For example, inwards Rotterdam as well as Utrecht virtually motorcar thefts took house inwards the urban substance centers, spell inwards Amsterdam as well as The Hague at that spot are less thefts inwards the pump as well as to a greater extent than cars stolen inwards the suburbs.

The 3 neighborhoods amongst the virtually cars thefts inwards the final half dozen months were inwards Nijmegen, Utrecht as well as Arnhem. If you lot direct a marking on the map you lot tin cease sentiment the full publish of cars stolen inwards the outset half dozen months of this twelvemonth as well as inwards the outset half dozen months of 2013. This allows you lot to run into where at that spot convey been dramatic rises inwards motorcar thefts. For example, inwards the 3511 postcode inwards Utrecht this twelvemonth at that spot were fifty cars stolen, a abrupt ascent over 2013, when 31 cars were stolen.

The map designers may convey missed a fox here. Simply using 2 dissimilar colored markers to exhibit where thefts convey risen as well as where thefts convey fallen would convey provided a corking agency to visualize as well as position areas amongst growing motorcar crimes.

The World's Worst Air Pollution

mainland People's Republic of China is the province amongst the worst air pollution inward the world. However the average air pollution inward mainland People's Republic of China pales into insignificance compared to the air pollution of New Delhi, the metropolis amongst the worst global air pollution.

You tin compare your province as well as city's air pollution to these 2 extremes on a novel Pollution Map from Yale University. This visualization of the world's air pollution uses information from WHO's Ambient Air Pollution database (city level) as well as the 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) (country level) to exhibit the air pollution inward each province inward the footing as well as inward a divulge of the world's largest cities.

If y'all desire to know to a greater extent than virtually how the map was made y'all tin read a write-up yesteryear Pedro Cuhna inward this week's CartoDB Map of the Week post.

If y'all desire to stance real-time air pollution readings thus y'all should banking venture jibe out these maps:

Worldwide - Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
Great Britain - Defra Air Pollution Forecast
Houston - The Houston Clean Air Network
Hong Kong - Hedley Environment Index

Mapping Seismic Action At Bárðarbunga

Since 16th August at that topographic point has been intense seismic action at Bárðarbunga inward Iceland. The seismic action simply about the volcano, located nether the Vatnajökull glacier inward Iceland, has led to fears that the volcano may erupt. Yesterday the police line unopen too evacuated the expanse due north of Vatna­jök­ull.

Aitor García Rey (@_aitor) has used CartoDB to exercise 2 maps of the ongoing seismic action inward the expanse simply about Bárðarbunga. Bárðarbunga - Last 72h inward 10 Seconds is a Torque powered animated map of 72 hours of seismic activity. This map allows you lot to stance the seismic action inward chronological order. The map was end updated yesterday (but seems to hold upward getting daily updates).

The mo map, Bárðarbunga: +1.6K Earthquakes inward 72h, uses the same information to map the magnitude too depth of each recorded earthquake (the earthquake markers are scaled inward size to correspond their fellowship of magnitude).

Mapping Creature Tracks

Tracking Geese Migration Between Deutschland as well as Russia is a Google Map showing the flying paths of a release of Geese over a release of years.

If you lot choose a bird's advert from the map side-panel you lot tin sentiment the chosen bird's path on the map. The time-line beneath the map shows the dates for the visualized flying paths. You tin also click on the round down markers on the bird's path to uncovering out the appointment when the plane was at the recorded location.


Last Lord's Day a release of hackers took purpose inwards EcoHack World to practise or as well as thence interesting environmental visualizations. During the solar daytime CartodDB was used to practise a release of brute tracking maps.

The maps include this map of  Every Animal Tracked yesteryear WhaleNet. Using the map you lot tin choose to sentiment the tracks of a release of marine animals, including seals, porpoises, turtles as well as dolphins. You tin run into all 5 brute tracking maps on this CartoDB webpage.

Check out the animal tracking tag to sentiment other brute tracking maps, showing the movements of cats, wildebeest, polar bears, seagulls, monkeys, weasels as well as many other animals.

How Walmart Conquered America

H5N1 novel CartoDB map visualizes how Walmart discovered America. Walmart Nation plots the historical opening of every Walmart shop together with reveals how the fellowship contributed to the kickoff map of the novel United Stores of America.

Walmart's perilous journeying started inward 1962 inward Rogers, AK. Their main objective was to explore together with map newly acquired territory, discovery a practical road across the Western one-half of the continent, together with constitute an American presence inward this novel territory earlier UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland together with other European powers tried to claim it.

Thanks to the heroic efforts of these retail pioneers every American tin instantly slumber soundly at nighttime inward the secure noesis that at that spot volition hold upwardly depression prices, always, when they awake.