Data is Beautiful - SA edition

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There is a sub on Reddit re interesting data visualization:

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

Post interesting graphs etc. about SA here.

 

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Average wind speeds over South Africa at 100m altitude. Higher "elevation"= higher speed.



Credit: https://twitter.com/geo_spatialist

 

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South Africa 1992 referendum results by region



Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_South_African_apartheid_referendum

 

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Credit: https://twitter.com/undertheraedar

 

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River Map of South Africa – Limn

 

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This is not South African - but a fascinating accounts to follow. Linked you to the Twitter search - hope it works

Kepler.gl

Tracking some Tweets of people using Kepler.gl for Urban Computing

twitter.com

 

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Roads of South Africa

 

[Urist]

The stuff in NW above the ground and under the ground, me mucking about with qgis.

 

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Credit: u/SirKlen

 

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Credit: u/DangerK1

 

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Credit: https://www.instagram.com/3dreliefmaps/

 

[GreGorGy]

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Credit: u/DangerK1

Is this supposed to be Joy Division fans? It has no title.

 

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Is this supposed to be Joy Division fans? It has no title.

It's elevation, but I can't recall what it was about. Can find it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/hchex7
Edit: Click the button top left:

Artistic visualization of heights

This website is allows you to pick any region of the world and print its high points in artistic, joyful manner.

anvaka.github.io

 

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[Johnatan56]

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Credit: https://twitter.com/undertheraedar

Gridded GDP maps for a spiky world

It's a bit of a cliché to say that the world is ' spiky ', but since I've done a few spiky-type maps in recent years I thought I would take...

www.statsmapsnpix.com

Global GDP to put SA in better perspective:


Population density (Note in the above GDP 2015 comparison, just UK was $2.9tn, India was a "mere" $2.1tn):

 

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Population density

That's quite interesting.

 

[bigAl-sa]

That's quite interesting.

Agree, would love to see a corona overlay on that!

 

[satanboy]

Map Of Most Photographed Places In The World

 

[Johnatan56]

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United States Elevation Map

That not South Africa, mine was still SA with putting stuff in context, just that the SA bit also had India in it.