Vlog: Gaia DR2 was released!! Mind = Blown!

The big data release from Gaia was a couple weeks ago! This is "Data Release 2", containing over a BILLION stars, with precise distances and motions. Amazing. Ever since then I have been racing to write a new paper, and have ideas for new projects to chase and grants to write! Exciting times!

Here is a short travel vlog from the day Gaia DR2 was released:

More Metro Madness

Here's another great visualization of metro activity, this time it's Shanghai, created by the talented Till Nagel. More details of this awesome project can be found on his website.

Happy March Mapness!


Shanghai Metro Flow from Till Nagel on Vimeo.


found via Reddit's /r/dataisbeautiful, a community of 2.5million data visualization lovers!

Mapping the daily commute

Here's a cool map Seth Kadish posted a couple days ago at Vizual Statistix. It shows the % of workers in counties who commute across state lines. [original post]

I'm especially interested in the area just north of Portland OR, which is Vancouver WA (not Vancouver BC). More than 30% of all the adult workers in Vancouver are heading over that I-5 bridge every day to work! Yikes!

The story is even more interesting on the east coast and in the south... check it out:

Thanks to Seth for sharing this, and again friends, be sure to subscribe to his great blog for many more cool maps and visualizations!!