Visualization

Storytelling with maps

In Cartography, Storytelling, Uncategorized, Visualization on 18 August 2008 with no comments

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 [...]

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In Art, Chicago, Environment, Housing, Manhattan, Rorty, Surveillance, Twitter, Visualization on 4 June 2008 with no comments

Two days out of the year Manhattan seems like it was built to accommodate the sun; they call it Manhattanhenge.
The Financial Times reports that housing prices and mortgage difficulties in London and the southwest of England have prevented 40 percent of young households (aged 21-40) from purchasing homes.
Clever art from Harmen de Hoop (1, 2, [...]