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mapsrfun:

Data from 2012 census estimates at the county level.

The 2nd map is the 145 most populated counties.

webbys:

motherjones:

Cool maps, but where’s the one showing the GIF/JIF split?

cheatsheet:

npr:

(via 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America)

Joshua Katz, a Ph. D student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualizations of a linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words. 

Among the words he maps are crawfish, syrup, caramel, lawyer, mayonnaise and pecan. He also maps regions by how they refer to a carbonated beverage (the age-old soda or pop question) and how people address groups of two or more people — though as someone who spent time in Pittsburgh, yinz seems to be conspicuously absent. — heidi

Check it out, Y’ALL. 

Right herrrrre.

In Alaska, it’s “Cran.”

Presented without comment. 

thelandofmaps:

American Agriculture and Coastal Fisheries, 1922 (Pictorial map by Armour & Co.)[2011×1296]
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I was a rhubarb farmer in my youth in Alaska. True story. 

brucesterling:

*American women dying in Red States.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/04/this-map-of-americas-health-is-pretty-terrifying/

Ooof. I don’t think I want to see this one. 

maphugger:

Major Web Companies’ Data Centers (2013)

Click for the fullview.

If you like that linework of the U.S., it’s 100% free to download and use from Project Linework. And, in fact, that was the basic impetus for making this map: just something fun and simple to show off the linework, so it’s not the most earth-shattering in terms of data.

While researching the locations, though, I did come across some neat issues when it comes to the siting of data centers: state governments will give big breaks on property taxes for the luxury of attracting a data center to a rural community, even if the centers themselves produce a noxious amount of noise. Site selectors are also looking for places with lots of cheap, clean electricity, accounting for much of the data centers located in hydropower-rich regions. 

Alaska? Yep. Nope. 

thelandofmaps:

In light of the recent pipeline burst in Arkansas. Here is the map of oil pipelines in the US (the green line broke in AR) [911x615]
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COME ON. Trans Alaska Pipeline? Anyone?

tumbledore:

This is a Voronoi decomposition of the Lower 48 states using the state capitals as seeds i.e. US states redrawn for optimal distance to the nearest capital

This map can be forgiven for excluding us because a) it is cool math stuff and b) it actually clarifies that it’s only the lower 48. Very nice. 

mapsontheweb:

U.S. map in accordance to how often an act of “pride” is committed (610x468)

You don’t’ want to know. 

upworthy:

The Gay Experimental State Of Your Straight State

OKCupid ran a data analysis on their 4,000,000 users and figured out how bi-curious straight people are from state to state. What’s the state of your state? We are apparently kind of bi here.

[Original by OkCupid. You should really read the whole post because it’s fascinating. Found on KNOWHomo.]

Alaska is 51.7% male. 

fourthsectorconsulting:

Mapping Food Deserts

The USDA has released their Food Access Research Atlas—a tool that lets policymakers, advocates, and community members see where food deserts are located throughout the U.S. Food deserts are areas where people have difficulty accessing fresh, healthy food. 

Yeah, that’d be pretty much all of Alaska. 

thelandofmaps:

Interstate Highways as State Lines [3088x2208][OC]
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Alaska has interstates!  I mean, we  they carry their local designations - the Glenn, the Parks, the Richardson, Tok Cutoff, Sterling and Alaska highways. But we have them! 

laughingsquid:

Keep America Beautiful, Jason Mecier Creates Map of the United States Using SXSW Trash

In my time at SXSW I met four other Alaskans - a woman from Eagle River, and the band Portugal.The Man, who hail from Wasilla, AK, just up the road from my mother. 

marissanewton:

my friend is from France and this is her map of the US omg

I don’t think I ever met a single French person in Alaska. I did take four years of French lessons, though, and my high school French class took a trip to Paris!

We just use our shirt to clean the dishes. 

dominicwarren:

Map Of Where American Television Shows Were Filmed

I suppose adding Northern Exposure to this map wouldn’t have helped, since it was filmed in Washington. 

ianwestcott:

Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2013

We have the Alaska Railroad, what else do we need? Best job I ever had. 

upworthy:

This Is How The U.S. Would Look If It Turned All Its Money Into Land

If America were apple pie, would you get a slice or a crumb? 

[Original image found on Think Progress.]

It’s cool. Just ignore 17% of the country’s land mass that is Alaska’s 663,000 square miles. 

explore-blog:

Mapping the distribution of higher education in America. Compare and contrast with the distribution of poverty:

I spent a semester at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I even worked there for a year. It would be a tiny light brown dot in a sea of yellow. 

30 Days of Night. Northern Exposure. Insomnia. Star Trek VI: Undiscovered Country. I think they also filmed a Jean Claude Van Damme film in my home down.