This is the first-ever interactive map I made for a cartography class at SDSU. The purpose of the project was to illustrate interesting data in an animated fashion as a Flash project.
For my topic, I chose America’s daily oil imports from OPEC nations over the last 20 years. Interesting data segments include small portions of imports from Iran during the U.S. embargo of Iraq in the early 1990′s and the ballooning imports from Africa.
Note: Due to some technical difficulties with Adobe Flash, I wasn’t able to add a loading bar. The SWF file is 15mb and and slower connections should wait 15 minutes after navigating to the page before using the map.
(click to enlarge and animate)