30Dec / 2020

Mapping disappearing beaches in Hawaii

Ash Ngu for ProPublica and Sophie Cocke for Honolulu Star-Advertiser show the harm of building seawalls on Hawaii’s beaches. The walls protect luxury beachfront properties, but they have been built through administrative loopholes and destroy beaches, which are owned by the public.

I like the combination of video footage and map, providing a scroll along the coastline. It provides an anchor for where you are and what you’re looking at.

Tags: beach, Hawaii, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, ProPublica, wall

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14Feb / 2019

Language used for the wall

For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy continues on his path looking at the words used by Donald Trump. This time Quealy examines descriptions of the wall and who will pay for it, pre- and post-inauguration.

Tags: Kevin Quealy, Upshot, wall

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07Jan / 2019

Border wall progress chart

Denise Lu for The New York Times provides a quick overview of the proposed border wall and its progress. Scroll for zeros.

Tags: New York Times, wall

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27Oct / 2016

Visualizing the U.S.-Mexican border

There’s been a lot of talk about building a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border lately. Seems straightforward enough, right? Just put some bricks up and be done with it. Well, it’s not really that easy, just from a logistics standpoint. Nevermind the politics. Josh Begley for the Intercept grabbed satellite images for the 1,954 miles of boundary line and then strung together the 200,000 images in a time-lapse to show the scale of what “build that wall” means.

Tags: border, satellite, wall

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Mapping disappearing beaches in Hawaii

Language used for the wall

Border wall progress chart

Visualizing the U.S.-Mexican border

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