Author Archives: Catherine

About Catherine

Combining her background in finance, economics and interaction design, Catherine Mulbrandon launched VisualizingEconomics.com in 2006 to share her love of data graphics about economics. She is currently working on An Illustrated Guide to Income in the United States.

Boston's Crazy One-way Streets

Posted on January 2, 2010

Find more examples of inefficient travel routes at Cartogrammar.com

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Using maps to identify abandoned public spaces

Posted on December 27, 2009

Local Code : Real Estates uses geospatial analysis to identify thousands of publicly owned abandoned sites in major US cities, imagining this distributed, vacant landscape as a new urban system. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8080630&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 WPA2 : Local Code / Real Estates from Nicholas … Continue reading →

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All of the streets in the lower 48 United States by Ben Fry

Posted on November 2, 2009
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Whimsical Maps of Dutch Population

Posted on September 13, 2009

Found via Strange Maps.

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Mapping the United States via Food

Posted on September 12, 2009

From Dominic Episcopo, an artist out of Philadelphia, who used ribeyes and sirloins map out our country Found via Swiss-miss

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