Devin Knight has part 24 of his custom visuals series:
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The Globe Map is a 3D globe visualization.
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It looks similar to the technology Power Map in Excel but lacks a few features like animating the data across time.
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The map can have multiple data visualization layers on top of the map like a bar chart and a heat map.
Under the right circumstances, this can be a useful visualization. I think its benefit is mostly limited to the “wow, this looks cool” effect.