Cartography
David McRaney recently used Google Insights to discover and map the spatial distribution of Google searches involving the search term “sweet tea”. I love the idea, but I wish that Google allowed us to normalize the data against something like the number of total searches made per state or the populations for each. Or does [...]
Of course maps tell a story. But while cartographers like John Krygier and Cindy Brewer offer us resources for making good maps, how do we tell better stories?
According to This American Life’s Ira Glass, a good story consists of three basic components:
1. Begin almost self-consciously in media res, with an unrelenting anecdote full of “and [...]
The tactile maps of the Inuit
Colleen of Middle Savagery recently discussed the 3D maps used by the Inuit to navigate the coastline of East Greenland in the dark. She wonders
if tactile maps could be extrapolated to other domains–what would a tactile BART map feel like? What about an archaeological map? Would the relief become [...]
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