This visualization by the New York Times illustrates that the site of Amtraks deadly crash in May of 2015 is the most curved stretch of track between Washington and New York.
Check out how the 2014 India Elections developed over Twitter.
NJ.com maps state demographic shifts with CartoDB.
New York launches an online service for citizens to engage with their elected officials.
The New York Daily News uses CartoDB to show just how safe you really are on the New York City subway.
These animated maps showing over 2,100 Portland homes demolished since September 2003.
Examine with this research the problems in Eurasia and the Middle East region.
Superbowl 2014 was the most seen TV broadcast ever. Check out how it reflected on Twitter.
This visualization maps one million WWI Royal Navy locations transcribed by the citizen scientists of Old Weather.
An interactive map communicates where are L.A. County’s homeless.
An interactive map communicates the state ranking by grants.
Tyler Dahlberg, an Azavea Summer of Maps fellow, mapped bicycle crashes in Philadelphia from 2007 – 2012 for the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.
CartoDB celebrates an epic win for the open data community with free PLUTO Data.
Mapping the territorial and urban management of a World Heritage Site
A project to increase the amount of publicly available data on international development and humanitarian response by providing detailed project information through interactive maps and data visualizations.
In this favorite from Reddit's DataisBeautiful, Andrew Hill explores a week in the life of Spencer the Cat.
A visualisation by @danc00ks0n showing £2m+ property sales in England and Wales between 1995 and 2013.
Estimating contributions to climate change mitigation by CBD Secretariat, LifeWeb and UNEP-WCMC.
An animated visualization of earthquakes that have occurred in Oklahoma since 2004 of 2.5-magnitude or greater.
The different smell trends in each part of London.
Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show.
This map show information about The Greenway trail system connects the Blue Spruce trail at Forests for the World to the Otway cross-country ski trails.
An innovative real estate application for neighborhood profiling, built with open data
International artists of Rock al Parque 2014.
The team's progress along the London Marathon course.
This map is a dazzling snapshot of just some of the possible routes that flights take over Queens.
Selfiecity is a project that investigates how people photograph themselves with mobile phones in 5 cities around the world.
A loophole in the law creates a curious situation regarding the sovereignty of sea waters.
The Center for Urban Research at CUNY Maps the History of 1940s New York.
A day in the life of the America's busiest commuter rail system.
Interactive map of significant tech company real estate deals in San Francisco by year and type.
This map shows colors from the color palette of images taken at the location of each circle.
Just in time for the next installment of the Star Wars Saga, fans can now explore all of the planets, hyperspace lanes, sectors, and regions of the Star Wars galaxy on the web.
Do elephants have a circadian rhythm? This visualization shows the hourly positions of five bull elephants fitted with GPS collars in Laikipia County in Central Kenya.
A simple map color-coding every American river according to which of the cardinal directions they flow toward.
Terrain mapping with Three.js meets CartoDB.
Map of Chicago election results reveals distinct patterns in each candidate’s strength in gaining votes across the city.
We all know how beautiful New Zealand is.
Crime DC: real time crime updates from Washington DC
Discover nearby events around Philadelphia.
In June 2013, Brazil erupted with demonstrations against transit fare hikes. This visualization tracked protest movements as they occurred in real-time.
This map shows how everyone is obsessed with Donald Trump.
The French Newspaper Libération has created a map of all the festivals in France in 2015.
Toronto municipal election research as mapped by City Studies students at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Examine the visualizations of the best- and worst-case escape scenarios of three Alcatraz prisioners.
Mexico's Constitution guarantees broadband access to all citizens.
Fragile Success is a project by Regional Plan Association that analyzes the New York Metropolitan area.
The first open research network in China uses CartoDB to power its work.
Visualize how people reacted all over the world to the release of the new Beyoncé album based on twitter data.
Atlas Justice is a project by The Institute of the Rule of Law to collect and analyze sentencing decisions in 2,213 regional and territory courts of the Russian Federation in 2009.
How California mandatory new drought cuts will impact your water use.
Too often, New Yorkers are caught off guard by new development in their neighborhoods. The Accidental Skyline offers tools to help demystify the city planning process and bring the public into the conversation.
Greenworks, a conservation visualization, developed by the Philadelphia Mayor's Office of Sustainability (MOS)
This visualization maps one million WWI Royal Navy locations transcribed by the citizen scientists of Old Weather.
Spills from oil and natural gas operations pose a risk to water resources, communities and land. The Western Toxic Release Map visualizes the location, size and contents of drilling-related chemical spills.
A visual revival of a New York City Marathon. Data from OpenStreetMap and an anonymous runner.
Transportation experience on the top public services around the world.
LA Times: Los Angeles County sheriff primary results by precinct.
A US Department of Energy map to help consumers find alternative energy fueling stations.
CartoDB choropleth reveals dominant clubs in each community and their respective ticket-shares.
Telling stories with maps. All of the concerts performed by The Rolling Stones visualized beautifully.
This map invites you to click on one of thousands of cities throughout the globe, and listen to a playlist of the music that is most distictively enjoyed there.
Spanish newspaper VilaWeb used CartoDB to create a series of maps that present the votes for every census tract (practically every block!) in Barcelona for the May 2015 municipal elections.
Mapping tweets #SB49: @Patriots vs. @Seahawks (and @katyperry halftime performance) during the 2015 Superbowl.
High Country News's investigation of assaults, threats, and other misconduct toward public land employees.
A CartoDB state squares experiment
On April 9, 1948, the assassination of political leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan turned Downtown Bogota into a scene of violent chaos.
An engineering team from Columbia University tracks the costs and environmental effects of electrical infrastructure development around the world.
A nationwide study into the happiest (and not so happy!) places to live in Great Britain.
The critical-consensus best in each of Paris’ 20 Arrondissements.
CartoDB arises as a leader in scientific information visualization.
Starbucks Map Quiz project shows the local density Starbucks in different cities.
CartoDB Odyssey powers storytelling to share what happens around the world.
An app making use of the CartoDB Platform to visualize real time deforestation all over the world.
Visually compare the results of two different runners in the Budapest Marathon.
Mapping where Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was headed, and where it ended up
With commissioners setting new standards for broadband access in America, National Telecommunications & Information Administrations data shows many areas of the country with limited access.
An open city tool built by Code for America to help monitor the City of Macon's landscape
Take a look at how the 2015 Grammy Awards teamed up with Twitter to build awareness and momentum around the event.
A map depicting private contributions to the Argentine primary legislative 2013 elections.
Mortuary mapping is a project by Matrix center for digital humanities & social sciences to show and explore The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Historic Cemetery.
NatCap uses CartoDB to improve the state of biodiversity and human well-being by motivating greater and cost-effective investments in resource preservation.
The Oregon tsunami.
Mapping the results of the 2015 elections in Buenos Aires, school by school
From Afrikaans to Telugu, Hebrew to Wu, the depth and diversity of languages in Sydney rivals some of the world's largest cities. The Sydney Morning Herald uses CartoDB to create a choropleth of Sydney's diverse cultural landscape.
Putting beautiful and dynamic maps onto a 3D globe has never been easier. Using a little JavaScript, you can now put your favorite CartoDB visualization on a 3D globe. The awesome open source JavaScript API Cesium, authored by AGI, renders 3D maps in the browser using WebGL.
This map analysis determines that more than 100,000 possible voters across five Chicago wards are affected by airline noise pollution.
Analyzing OpenStreetMap tile map access logs data with CartoDB
Mapping Conservation in the Galapagos Archipelago
This Is Net Neutrality. Net neutrality requires that the Internet be maintained as an open platform.
CyclePhilly is a smartphone app for recording your bicycle trips.
OOM Creative is the author of a project for the City of Melbourne to visualize their entire tree database as an interactive map.
A comprehensive visualization of the 2014 Brazil election resuls made by Estadao, one of Brazil's biggest newspapers.
Al Jazeera tracks IS operations in Syria and Iraq using CartoDB.
Here is an interactive GIS Map comparing evacuation routes as they currently exist to how they were when Hurricane Sandy hit. Is the city better prepared for a major hurricane?
Precision Agricultural GPS guide - The easiest tool for phytosanitary treatments and fertilizers.
Tree canopy coverage and tax information per parcel.
This map of Chicago election results show each candidate’s and margin victory across the city.
A journalism project to visualize the issue of migrants who died trying to reach a better life. What are usually isolated media reports through time have been compiled here to provide a global understanding of the issue.
Travel the globe to explore extreme stories and add your own adventure videos with this geo-tag-powered web-map powered by CartoDB.
The Ellis Act is a California state law which says that landlords have the right to evict tenants in order to "go out of business."
This map shows precisely where stabilized apartments in New York City have disappeared, remained, or been constructed between 2007 and 2014.
ClearStreets.org scraped data on where Chicago’s 300 plows were moving over the duration of the snowstorm in early February 2015.
The Los Angeles Times uses CartoDB to report on the health of the city's housing market.
The Photogrammar maps plot the approximately 90,000 historical photographs that have geographical information.
This city program is designed to allow residents to purchase vacant lots in their neighborhoods for just a single dollar in an effort to help revitalize the neighborhood.
Google search data from the past 12 months that tracked which party leaders were searched for the most nationwide. The data was then aggregated to display information across 5,000 towns and cities in the UK.
In these maps you can see states sized by their civilian labor force population and color-coded to show statistics related to jobless rates.
An urban displacement visualization by University of California at Berkeley.
INXS rose to world dominance in the late eighties through groundbreaking music and relentless touring. They played 2,145 gigs to more than 30 million fans in 49 countries from 1977 to their final show at the Perth Arena in 2012.
This map shows the distribution and biodiversity of the New York's street trees based on the 2005-2006 tree census.
Trip Risk began life after a days hacking at Geoplex. Trip Risk only exists because VicRoads make their crash statistics freely available for people like us to work with.
For the price of one square meter in London, you could buy a new car. These CartoDB maps help break the demographics down.
The Foundation for Tackling Vehicle Crime (STAVC) takes on car theft data in the Netherlands.
CartoDB Torque animates laps along the German fast-lane in Nürburgring and records them with Android app FLATOUT. Vroom Vroom!
This project mission is to help build the future of media for journalists and news organizations.
Deaths outnumber births on Sydneys wealthy North Shore.
CartoDB maps impact zones where scientists from the Meteoritical Society have found meteorites and the impact craters of meteorites, some dating back as far as the year 2,300BC.
A map to visualize which streets are plown in the city of Chicago. A perfect example of citizen reuse of open data, and how you can integrate data into CartoDB to provide a real time experience.
Is AirBNB to blame for the rising rent prices and a lack of affordable housing in Berlin?
Five rides in August 2015
This research reveal trends in the evolution of popular music in the United States.
During the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Watch the Los Angeles bus system shuttle passengers around the city.
The Island is a project for rock climbing lovers.
Explore this map to discover what is happening in Los Angeles.
Homengo resealed a project with local taxes in each place of France.
Overlook Endurance Runs is part of what makes Auburn State Park home to more endurance events than any other park on Earth. They use CartoDB to map their most historic runner routes.
Take a look at how Miles Grimshaw uses CartoDB to map his own Uber data to explore personal data and privacy.
This visualization shows the intense seismic activity more than 1.400 earthquakes.
An interactive map to discover the many Roman and Islamic monuments in the city.
Cyber threat map is a project by Blueliv to track more than 200,000 Crime Servers.
Kathmandu, before and after the earthquake in Nepal in imagery.
An interactive map communicates complex information quickly and to the point.
Finding a place to live in England and Wales is not always easy. That’s why the well known British newspaper.
A 3D representation of Chapinero, Bogotá, using IDECA data.
Tickets set in Madrid along February 2015.
An interactive map that shows where and when accidents are likely to happen in Reno, NV. The application was developed during a hackathon using five years of historical accident data from the Reno Police Department.
Providing you with the data and insights that will help you understand London’s true potential.
The Texas Water Development Board built an application to make its quinquennial State Water Plan easily accessible to the public.
Exploring the Manhattanhenge phenomenon with an interactive visualization.
Immigration flow to Europe and its impact in population.
The European Research Institute Lifewatch used a bird radar detection system called ROBIN to study and then map the nocturnal habits of birds
Beyond Floods is a simple, interactive solution to help New York residents understand and manage their flood risks.
Another amazing example of how a global event develops in Twitter.
Visualizations of spatial distributions regarding tourism in Hamburg, Germany showing all hotels, hostels, airbnb-apartments and the most tourist-saturated neighborhoods.
A visual analysis of millions of credit card transactions the week before and during Mobile World Congress 2012 that reveals the economic impact on the city of Barcelona.
Explore suburbs for property investment potential in Australia.
The Project Climate Policy Initiative is a global policy analysis and advisory organization that supports low-carbon growth efforts.
CartoDB choropleth maps show where and what Brazilians prefer to drive.
LifeWatch INBO is a biodiversity initiative in charge of several terrestrial and freshwater observatories. They use CartoDB to visualize activity data they are tracking from different animals.
As part of their 2014 Social Impact Report.
A polygon map comparing the thefts of cars and bikes in the streets of Victoria in the 2013 fiscal year.
A celebration of Maya Angelou's life. A lot can be discovered about a life on a map.
A data microscope for exploring Spanish 2011 election results.
Swedish Radio uses CartoDB to record the experiences of Syrian refugees trying to start new lives in Europe.
Dashboard of the City of Boston Mayor 24-Hour Constituent Services Hotline.
Urban Reviewer is a comprehensive guide to all 150 urban renewal master plans in New York City.
Data-driven map that shows data collected from different types of transportation
The Bushwick Community Map functions as a community map displaying city and housing data from a diverse set of sources.
Identifying environmental risk through alternatives analysis
See how tweets mentioning #sunrise track the start of the day around the world.
An unique cartographic experiment by HERE with CartoDB.
Newsweek's High School Rankings highlights the top public schools in the US.
Elliott data came from the Baltimore City Open Data Portal, and he used CartoDB opacity tool for the heat-map effect.
The Centro De Integración Cuidadana is a foundation in Monterrey (Mexico) that aims to create a trust network for citizens to participate in public matters.
The NPS uses CartoDB to provide real time info about road closures in their parks.
What started out as a local Missouri story quickly spread across the United States, and soon made worldwide headlines.
Mapping the ratio of census tract income to county income in New Jersey
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