Day 1: Points | High-risk dams within the Connecticut River watershed sized relative to their maximum discharge volume.
Day 28: Chart or map? | A cartogram showing relative urban population around the world. Light colors represent the greatest change in urban pop. from 1962 to 2022.
Day 11: Retro | A map of structures and greenspace in the greater Springfield, MA area.
Day 25: Antarctica | Different routes and modes of transportation to travel to Antarctica.
Day 5: Analog | A hand-drawn map of the River Valley Cyclocross Series race locations.
Day 9: Hexagons | A map of enriched H3 hexagons (at resolution 7) showing the percentage of households across Vermont that receive SNAP/food stamps.
Day 18: Atmosphere | A choropleth map showing inches of rainfall above or below the 100-year average across counties in the Northeast from July-August 2023.
Day 10: North America | A map of places named (or fka) "Paris."
Day 6: Asia | Percent change in forested land cover from 2005 to 2015 across countries in Southeast Asia.
Day 24: Black and white | A monochromatic REM (relative elevation model) rendering of the tributaries of the CT River oxbow. Created using Daniel Coe's tutorial, "Creating REMs in QGIS with the IDW Method" (https://dancoecarto.com/creating-rems-in-qgis-the-idw-method).
Day 12: South America | Ecosystems along the western edge of South America.
Day 19: 5-minute map | Bathymetric contours of the Quabbin Reservoir.
Day 21: Raster | A map of Canyonlands National Park.
Day 26: Dots | A map of every tree and its health status (good, fair, or poor) in NYC recorded as part of the 2015 street tree census.
Day 8: Africa | A 3D(ish) map showing the Mulanje Massif plateau and associated hiking trails. Located in southern Malawi near the Mozambique border, the Massif is home to Sapitwa Peak (3,002 m), the highest point in the country.
Day 14: Europe | A heatmap of early modern European shipwrecks using data from the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (NADL).
Day 23: 3D | A map of the toe of Alaska's Matanuska Glacier looking due south.
Day 2: Lines | A map of every road within a 50-mile radius of my home containing the word “river.” Inspired by a conversation about biking every "river road."
Day 27: Minimal | Tendrils of the Amazon River basin.
Day 22: North is not always up | A spilhaus map showing global shipping lanes from the CIA's "Map of the World Oceans, October 2012."
Day 16: Oceania | Tectonic plate boundaries in relation to countries in Oceania.
Day 20: Outdoors | The first iteration of a mountain bike trail network map for the Sawmill Hills conservation area in Northampton, MA.
Day 4: A bad map | Places that inspired (or are the subject of) versions of the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
Above: socioeconomic vulnerability based on the deprivation index (NZiDep) model.
Day 13: Choropleth | A collection of choropleth maps showing demographic characteristics of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Above: percentage Māori.
Above: percentage of the population age 65 and older.
Day 29: Population | Concentration of Gen Z population by U.S. county.
Day 15: OpenStreetMap | Mapping social connectedness index (SCI) values based on open data from Meta about where friend connections exist around the world.
Day 17: Flow | Visualizing the top 10 importers of Thai rice in 2022 by quantity and value.
Day 3: Polygons | Density of cooperatively-owned businesses across the U.S. normalized by 2020 total state population.