If you want to make an animated map (and you’re not a coder), there are not a lot of options out there. CartoDB is the best. You can use it to make rather gorgeous choropleths but it excels at mapping large numbers of points. That makes it perfect for mapping Tweets — and I used … Continue reading →
Data journalist, writer, speaker. Author of 'Facts are Sacred', published by Faber & Faber and a new range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Data editor at Google, California. Formerly at Twitter, San Francisco. Created the Guardian Datablog. All opinions on this site are mine, not my employers'. Read more >>