Interactive

Interactive: Comparing the Cost of Water

A look at how Texas stacks up against other parts of the U.S. in water rates, single-family usage, precipitation and drought. Produced in collaboration with the Texas Tribune.

Interactive: Envisioning California's Delta As It Was

An interactive map of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta comparing the historical habitat with the present day landscape, produced in collaboration with KQED Public Media and the San Francisco Estuary Institute.

Interactive: Data Visualization: Changing U.S. Demographics

This visualization enables users to expore demographic changes over time and space using U.S. Census data at the county level from 1850 to 2008.

Interactive: Data Visualization: Journalism's Voyage West

Created for the Rural West Initiative's report on newspapers in the West, his visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers.

Interactive: The Grand Canyon as Outdoor Classroom

The Sophomore College course Water in the West sent 12 students and four faculty on a 13-day excursion down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. This map highlights some of the places they encountered, including hiking trails, slot canyons, difficult rapids and other natural features.

Interactive: The Long Draw: On the Trail of an Artistic Mystery in the American West

An interactive map created as a supplement to the Harper's Magazine article “The Long Draw,” which appeared in the January 2012 issue of the magazine.

Interactive: Real Rural: Stories from the Other California

On a media fellowship from the Center, Lisa M. Hamilton spent much of 2011 criscrossing California, capturing offbeat portraits of the state's remarkable scenery and seeking out stories about the diverse residents of what she calls "the other California."