With summer around the conner I made this map about San Diego beaches. I hope the faces make sense. All the data was based on my experience of living in San Diego most of my life and spending a lot of time at the beach. Happy Summer.
This year California will vote to keep or ban the death penalty. If California bans it they will be the 18th state to do so (Washington D.C. also has banned the practice). So here are a few maps showing death penalty info. The second and third maps have the number inside each state I used to make the cartogram.
Note: Connecticut and New Mexico have banned the death penalty but grandfathered some people on to death row,11 and 2 respectively. The third map only counts deaths since 1976 because the supreme court put a temporary ban on it between 1972 and 1976. Also that seemed like a good block of time to use for data.
For the record I’m for the death penalty in extreme situations. What I don’t like is having 723 people on death row and only executing 13 in 36 years.
Data source deathpenaltyinfo.org
Bostons Fenway Park turns 100 years old this Friday, the oldest stadium. So here are the other baseball stadiums by age. I used 3D spheres so both New York teams became one they’re both 3 years old, and the SF Giants(12 years old) were covered by Oakland(46 years old), and the Chicago Cubs Wrigley(98 years old) field covers the White Sox(21 years old) and the Brewers(11 years old). The stadiums range from 0 years the new Miami Marlins stadium to the soon to be 100 year old Fenway Park. They’re grouped into five year intervals but there’s no legend to explain it. The colors means nothing, just to highlight the stadiums near each other like San Diego and Anaheim. The Dodgers and Angles stadiums are the same age that’s why they look the same. The average is 21 years old and the most common group is 11-15 years.
Each League and division has high and low team salaries.
This video shows the percentage of each country that is covered by forest. Both by height and color, the higher and greener the country the more it’s covered by forest.
Data from data.worldbank.org
This video shows MLB team salaries over the past 15 years.
Data from stevetheump.com
Here is a revision to a previous entry, “Landlocked countries”. I stated before there were 38. Well that was outdated, I believe this one is accurate. It even includes South Sudan Which only became a country last year. New figures: 46 landlocked countries and 2 double landlocked countries.
Data from the CIA world fact book website.
This map is of the highest point per country. The map is a projected coordinate system of the world called Polyconic (sphere).
The data is from worldatlas.com
This map is of the lowest natural outdoor point per country. I’ve highlighted the lowest countries near the edges of the dead sea and the highest a small country inside S. Africa. The map is a projected coordinate system of the world called Polyconic (sphere).
The data is from worldatlas.com
America has 104 nuclear power plants at 65 sites. The nation is divided into 4 nuclear regions. The first has 25 plants, second has 35 plants, third has 24, and the fourth has 20. All these plants only produce about 20% of the electricity for America. The youngest is 16 years while the oldest is 43 years old.
The data is from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission website.
