we live in a weird, wonderful, terrifying time

very weird / wonderful / scary!

As a FYI, it looks like this was re-posted more recently which led to some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166397

What a wonderful article (public radio!) and what wonderful work.

Heartening to see amidst a time of attacks on higher education.

very cool - it would be fun to load more detailed outlines at higher resolutions using map tiles or someing. at high zooms some of the shapes are quite blocky

This is incredible scrollytelling map work, especially for a student newspaper, I'm pretty amazed.

Great job using MapLibre too, glad it is getting more and more popular.

For others in the thread wondering about other examples of this kind of journalism/mapping/data work, to my knowledge the best term for it would be 'scrollytelling' or 'storymapping' (which is an ESRI term but is used generally as well).

There are a ton of examples out there, but I'm sad there isn't a central repository of really great ones. The NYT and The Pudding are two places that do pretty cool stuff like this.

hahahaha i'm stealing scrollytelling, that's brilliant