Tag: Maps

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James Cheshire

Sewage Alerts: The Long History of Using Maps to Hold Water Companies to Account

This article originally appeared in The Conversation and refers to the huge criticism water companies in the UK are facing over their sewage discharge practices. Southern Water..
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Claire Santoro

Noisy Cities: Behind the Scenes with Karim Douïeb

Karim Douïeb is a Brussels-based data scientist and co-founder of Jetpack.ai. He is also the creator of an unexpectedly-viral U.S. election map that he spoke..
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Jason Forrest

Patrick Abercrombie’s “The Greater London Plan”

One of my favorite works of data visualization is a map from “The Greater London Plan” in 1944. This semi-abstract map by Patrick Abercrombie and..
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Nick Desbarats

A Map of Data Visualization (For Discussion!!)

The data visualization field is fascinating and I feel incredibly fortunate to be working in it, but, frankly, it’s also kind of a mess: It’s..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: Detroit in 50 Maps by Alex B. Hill

In professional and community circles, Detroit can sometimes feel like a small town. I started hearing about Alex B. Hill and his site, Detroitography, early..
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Milán Janosov

A Network Map of The Witcher

The Witcher, a fantasy novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, has inspired multiple computer games and was even launched on Netflix in 2019, with the latest..
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Rajesh Sigdel

Visualizing Hispaniola

With the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the kidnapping of 17-foreign born missionaries, and a destructive earthquake which left thousands dead, Haiti is once again..
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Oscar So

“What are you going to write for your second?” – An interview with Kenneth Field

Recently, I had the chance to interview Kenneth Field about his newly published book, Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data. Kenneth is..
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Alex Rich

How to Iterate on a CDC Health Advisory Graphic

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has had its hands full for the last year and a half. It’s an agency full of talented,..
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Robert Simmon

Making Sense of Satellite Data, An Open Source Workflow: 2. Pre-processing Data with QGIS

There is more satellite data available now than ever before, but it still takes a little bit of work to convert the raw data into..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: Mapping Affinities by Dario Rodighiero

Influence has consequential implications. Consider Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger’s findings from his book, Contagious:  “A word-of-mouth conversation by a new customer leads to an..
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Robert Simmon

Making Sense of Satellite Data, An Open Source Workflow: Accessing Data

We are living in a golden age of access to information about our home planet. Just twenty years ago, access to satellite data was limited..
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Matteo Moretti

Data Enabling: the Glocal Climate Change Design Process

What is the surgeon’s work? Saving lives or cutting/sewing bodies? Both. One answer refers to the what, the other answer to the how. In that vein, what is the..
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Mary Aviles

Indelible Impressions: Why You Won’t Forget the Map Room Project

In my quest to improve data fluency among those who think of themselves as non-data people, I am always on the lookout for physical manifestations..
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Andy Krackov

How Can Data Visualization Improve Local Conditions?

On a dedicated channel, #dvs-topics-in-data-viz, in the Data Visualization Society Slack, our members discuss questions and issues pertinent to the field of data visualization. Discussion..
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Paul Matos

Mapping Mexico City’s Indigenous People

“They aren’t statistics. They are human lives,” says Juan Luis Toledo Sanchez, member of the autonomous cooperative Cimarronez (or C.A.C.A.O., by its Spanish acronym), in..