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William B. Davis

@willbdavis.bsky.social
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Graphics editor @nytimes.com weather. Formerly @mapbox.com williambdavis.ca

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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 23/09/2026
In other news, I started a new blog. Living my best internet life like it's 2015 :)
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 06/09/2026
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Opinion | Summer Has Gotten Much Hotter. See How Bad It Is Where You Live.
The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.
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michael h keller @mhkeller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Some @layercake.graphics news: with @openclimatedata.net's help and @techniq.dev's insights, v11 of the library is out and has fully converted into runes instead of the @svelte.dev Store API. tldr; many fewer dollar-signs!
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Three storms in the Eastern Pacific
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 24/08/2026
Disappointingly superficial. New York City has huge issues building anything underground, and the coordination issues mentioned in passing here are a huge reason why. But all the most well resourced newspaper on earth can muster about its home city is "the street markings look like abstract art"?
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Behind the Mysterious Symbols Spray-Painted on Our Streets (Gift Article)
All over New York’s sidewalks and sewers, colored markings hide in plain sight, telling construction crews where to dig and creating accidental art.
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Pablo Robles @pablorobles.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m sharing one tool every week from my list, now at 202 tools published out of 1,500+ I’m reviewing! extract.bbbike.org a handy utility that exports custom OpenStreetMap map data into formats like GeoJSON, Shapefile, or MBTiles. Updated daily by me, not AI. josepablorobles.com/tools.html
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Tools & Resources — Pablo Robles
Curated tools and resources for visual journalism, data visualization, design, and cartography.
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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Come work with my team on the very best beat: the Economics of Climate Change!!! Excited to make many beautiful charts with whoever gets this gig :) job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/08/2026
Europe’s first solar eclipse in decades is happening on Wednesday. Will you be able to see it? Here's what to know about the weather forecast, path and time of the eclipse near you.
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How Much of the Eclipse Will You See?
Check the weather forecast, path and time of the eclipse near you.
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Today's rain www.nytimes.com/weather?lng=...
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For the past couple months I’ve been working on a tiled custom radar layer that works with @maplibre.org. I wanted it to be performant, smoothly animate, and be precise. You can check it out here (the locations that have active radar change every 5 min.) www.nytimes.com/weather?lng=...
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Mapping the recent wildfire smoke: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/07/2026
Breaking News: A major, 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast near the Guatemala border.
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Map: 7.3-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Mexico's Coast
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
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ಠ_ಠ @denisedslu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We used data from AllTrails and combined it with weather data to try and find the best weeks to visit 16 national parks across the US. Here's what we found (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/ame... w @mariepastora.bsky.social on maps!
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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Fantastic reporting, and clear visual examples, of the danger posed to pedestrians by bigger and bigger trucks with huge blind spots www.nytimes.com/interactive/... from @mhkeller.bsky.social
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 13/06/2026
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How Betters Use Arbitrage to Make Free Money on Kalshi and Polymarket (Gift Article)
How bettors are turning statistical glitches into guaranteed profits.
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Brian T Jacobs @btjak.es · 12/05/2026
More recently: I've been working on an app called Earthling, and I'm gearing up for its public preview. I'd love if you'd follow along @earthlingmaps.com www.earthlingmaps.com
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Earthling - Maps for Humans
Create maps for newsletters, articles, and social media, and add context without the clutter
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Stefanos Chen @stefanoschen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Big changes are coming to Grand Army Plaza, one of the busiest and most chaotic hubs in NYC. We took a closeup look at how the space is transforming www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Mamdani Would Change Grand Army Plaza for Walkers, Bikers and Drivers (Gift Article)
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to connect the plaza to Prospect Park would expand pedestrian spaces, add bike lanes and reroute cars to improve traffic flow in the area.
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Made some creatures using IBTrACS tropical cyclone wind data
Sustained wind speed of storm Beryl in 2024 Sustained wind speed of storm Helene in 2024 Sustained wind speed of storm Melissa in 2025 Sustained wind speed of storm Milton in 2024
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Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Intense days, we’ve published many Moon pieces—including this one today in video format—for which I 3D-printed a model of the Moon exactly the size that astronauts see it from Orion. According to NASA, it looks like a basketball if you hold it at arm's length. tinyurl.com/bs8ytpap
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Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🌖 Artemis II will send four astronauts farther than any human has ever gone. Here’s what you need to know about their mission: tinyurl.com/bdeyx8n9 🎁
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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Record heat is colliding with a snow drought across the Western United States, where snowpack accounts for much of the water supply 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... w/ @byscottdance.com & @sachimulkey.bsky.social
A map of the snowpack across the western United States compared to average snowpack for this time of the year. In nearly all, large swaths of the mountain ranges have less than a third of the normal snowpack for the year. Nearly all of the Colorado River Basin has below-average snow. Snowpack is below average in every western state except for parts of Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Washington.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/03/2026
Blackouts are getting worse in Cuba. On some days, the entire island is plunged into near total darkness. The electricity crisis has laid bare the risks of depending so heavily on foreign oil while trying to maintain a centrally planned socialist economic system.
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Mapping Cuba’s Blackouts
Cuba is facing a historic electricity crisis. Blackouts have gotten worse, and on some days the entire island is plunged into near total darkness.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 09/03/2026
Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com Come help us explain the news! We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations. Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
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Data Graphics/Multimedia Editor, The Upshot | The New York Times Company
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 23/02/2026
Interactive Maps and Charts: Tracking the Northeast Winter Storm www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Winter Storm Forecast Maps: Where Snow and Blizzard Conditions Will Hit East Coast (Gift Article)
See where snowfall and cold temperatures are expected.
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Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · 17/02/2026
I've just added three KH-7 images of the Matochkin Shar Nuclear Test Site to the declassified imagery gallery. These shots are gorgeous. There's something about film and snowy landscapes. October 4, 1965: spacefromspace.com/declassified... May 26, 1967: spacefromspace.com/declassified... cont.
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Trump's View Of the World Even on a global scale, the president's attitudes reflect a fixation on a single subject: himself. GIFT LINK 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Trump Sees the World: It’s Personal (Gift Article)
Historical relationships play little if any role in the second-term worldview of the president, who holds himself as the constant center of global events.
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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 03/02/2026
I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create OpenStreetMap-derived, Wikipedia-informed national borders on a Protomaps base map legal for educational use in countries in conflict. medium.com/@michalmigur...
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Weeknotes, 2026W04: Boundary Issues
I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create…
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Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My thoughts are with the +300 colleagues who were laid off today. This is not good for the industry www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists
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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 03/02/2026
Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif... - Fast, with a Rust core - Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding - Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile - Remote data support with Obstore - No GDAL dependency
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Introducing Async-GeoTIFF - async-geotiff
A fast, async GeoTIFF and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) reader for Python.
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Lauren Tierney @tierneymaps.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The last few weeks I've seen a lot of great job opportunities shared, listing a few that stood out to me in the mapping/cartography/visual journalism space: www.linkedin.com/posts/lauren...
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#mapping #cartography #datajournalism #visualjournalism | Lauren Tierney
The last few weeks I've seen a lot of great job opportunities shared, listing a few that stood out to me in the mapping/cartography/visual journalism space: Data Visualization Journalist at The Seatt...
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Visualising Climate @visualisingclimate.com · 28/01/2026
Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Playing with elevation data in #Blender. This is the #Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) boundary which includes all of the watersheds that converge in Toronto. Going to try draping some orthophotos and land cover data over this. Other ideas? #Maps #Mapping #GIS #3D #dataviz
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 18/01/2026
From NYT World: (Gif link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Why It’s Hard to Run Venezuela
Venezuela sprawls over terrain twice the size of California, with vast tracts of treacherous jungles, steep mountains and cities filled with guns.
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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
No time like a holiday deadline to learn MapLibre and how to run a cron job for the first time 🙃 (with a big assist from @willbdavis.bsky.social ) Follow along our “slow blog” as Ray and Chang join a team of scientists traveling to Antarctica: 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...
A map of the globe that shows the southern hemisphere, including New Zealand on the top left and Antarctica in the bottom center. The map shows the path of a ship that will travel from New Zealand to the West Antarctic and back between December 2025 and February 2026.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 23/12/2025
From NYT National: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Complex Deportation Network Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Will You Have a White Christmas This Year? 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Tim Wallace @wallacetim.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Bringing back the bugle mountains with this work in progress.
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Fun little exploratory project. I mapped transit oriented surface parking lots in NYC and applied recent development densities to estimate housing potential. Link at the end. #NYC #Planning #Dataviz #mapping #maps #map #housing
Map of NYC surface parking lots
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Bora Erden @boraerden.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A Dead Glacier Is a Loss. A Dying One Is a Threat. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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A Dead Glacier Is a Loss. A Dying One Is a Threat. (Gift Article)
Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Tracking snowfall around Lake Michigan overnight and into today w/ @nazaneentv.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Map of 24-hour snowfall accumulation around Lake Michigan.
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
@nytweather.bsky.social relaunched a freezing temperature tracker for this season. Check it out here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Maps showing freezing temperatures across the contiguous United States between Sunday Nov. 9 and Friday Nov. 14, 2025.Chart showing the actual and "feels like" temperature for Chicago between Saturday Nov. 8 and Friday Nov. 14, 2025.
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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Been obsessed with local flood hotspots since my ground floor apartment flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Seems like a good day to share this beautiful look at NYC's flood risk and some solutions the city is exploring (feat. lovely @nunderwood6.bsky.social maps!): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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New York Is Going to Flood. Here’s What the City Can Do to Survive.
Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
12 hours of Hurricane #Melissa, one frame every minute. 🛰️🗺️
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Intensification of hurricane #melissa overnight www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Pablo Robles @pablorobles.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I’ve spent years collecting tools, datasets, maps, and other interesting links I’ve come across through my work and passion. I’m organizing everything into one place: If you’d like to get it when it’s out, you can subscribe here: pablorobles.substack.com/about
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 23/10/2025
From NYT Climate, via @harrystevens.bsky.social and @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power
The United States was once the undisputed leader in atomic energy. Now it is trying to catch up.
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I've started processing NOAA's MRMS data to show near real-time storm impacts. Here's the latest from storm Imelda: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Mapping some recent double events www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Two maps showing recent earthquakes in Venezuela and their relevant shake extents.Map showing two recent storms that have developed in the Atlantic.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I just published a new installment of A Gentle Introduction to GDAL. It’s about visualizing time series data & automating tedious processing chains with shell scripting. No experience needed. #cartography #maps #dataviz medium.com/@robsimmon/a...
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A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 9: Automation with Bash
The main strength of GDAL is its command line foundation, which unlocks capabilities that are difficult to execute otherwise.
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