William B. Davis
willbdavis.bsky.social
William B. Davis
@willbdavis.bsky.social
Graphics editor @nytimes.com weather. Formerly @mapbox.com

https://williambdavis.ca/
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Intensification of hurricane #melissa overnight www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I've started processing NOAA's MRMS data to show near real-time storm impacts. Here's the latest from storm Imelda: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
September 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds #mapshaper #turfjs #flubber #svelte5 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
August 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hurricane Erin this morning: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
August 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Animated some dust moving across the atlantic for this story with @amyjeangraff.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...
June 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Made two animated globes using gdal, ffmpeg, and ai2html for this story (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...
May 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Rainfall from this past weekend: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/w...
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Little inset guy to show the eclipse extent in context
April 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
February 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Drawing arrows and other symbols with #turfjs

willymaps.github.io/experiments/...
December 3, 2024 at 2:09 PM
10. I didn’t share these slides after @nacis.bsky.social because I actually built the presentation on top of a blank basemap to highlight how performant these static files can be. Unfortunately presenting slides this way made them less accessible, which I regret
November 26, 2024 at 9:53 PM
9. @mapbox.com recently released new raster capabilities that have made rendering video files even more performant. Here’s a 24-hour loop of radar imagery that is simply the colour red, but represents the underlying data. It can now be styled in runtime with: docs.mapbox.com/style-spec/r...
November 26, 2024 at 9:53 PM