❄️🚢 Using 6 years of AIS data & NOAA sea-ice records, I tracked vessels completing the Northern Sea Route during seasonal ice retreat. Despite global shocks (sanctions, etc), 2021 saw 92 ships vs just 10 in 2010. Visuals show daily sea-ice + tracks. Data: Kpler & MarineTraffic

Yes correct, the arrow is normalised by speed and tanker size to an extent. With increased spoofing some of the tracks ping in strange directions so my workflow culls some of these leaps leading to the vessel looking like it disappears. I have an infographic I’ll share on spoofing in the region 👍

🗺️ I've spent a lot of time the past week looking at data in the Strait of Hormuz so here is a quick animation showcasing the sheer volume of activity in the Persian Gulf last Friday. The data highlights "Tanker" only vessels (AIS code 80-89) so everything from Crude Oil Tankers to LNG Tankers.

blobs haha! We really wanted to use our MarineTraffic arrows but the problem with fishing is there are long periods of static activity so the directions swing so much the vessels look like helicopters! Hence the blobs - no problem with direction 😅

#DataVizThursday 🐟 Here is a new #dataviz exploring fishing activity off Peru in 2024 using Kpler data. 38% of vessels near the EEZ were Chinese flagged. The heatmap reveals growing DWF patterns since 2017. Maritime data tells powerful stories—more to come! #dataviz #maritime #AIS #3d #map

I’m sure I’ve also seen Elizabeth (www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth...) producing blender tutorials for mapping - I’m not sure she is on bsky. I’ll add to this when I come across others, I’ve been a bit absent from social for a bit so am catching up a little.

Hey - I have some basic tuts on my Mapzilla website for Houdini, off the top of my head, @julianhoffmann.bsky.social recently did a blender training session for 3d mapping and @peterincan.bsky.social has also produced guides for geoanimations in blender - both amazing 3d designers 👌

My first month at Kpler was all about bringing AIS data to life with 3D animation. 🚢

From design-led R&D to data processing workflows & render tests (Octane, Redshift, Cycles), it’s been a deep dive into geography, scale & motion. More experiments & data stories soon—watch this space!
#dataviz

I really enjoyed developing these clean concepts and motion effects to showcase various products/ideas present in TomTom's Orbis Maps. #3d #animation

This was made almost entirely in Houdini and rendered using Octane. 👍

A snippet of an animation I created for TomTom earlier this year as part of their Traffic Index campaign for NYC. That probe data is 🔥 #dataviz #map

Here's a little collaboration I made with infogr8 animating socioeconomic data in N America. It shows a segmented version of "Joblessness" and the change from 1990-2019. #dataviz

Hi Everyone!
As I end an era at Ito World I thought I'd start a new era here too. Great to see/hear so many of you again. 👋

🗺️ YT of my 7 year Ito dataviz compilation below
youtu.be/_Hc4bL7LENY?...