“Literary cartography fascinates and guides the way that actual cartography does; that’s why we keep and carry stories in the same places we carry and keep maps: on our walls, in our pockets, and on our phones.”
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-allure-of-the-map
Artist: Evilpainter, September 2017
SIZE: 122 x 156 cm – Acrylic on Canvas
FROM: https://evilpainter.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-world-September-2013-405525514
This is a map giving the travel routes, current and historical, and placenames of the Inuit and Northern Peoples in Nunavut.
Sam
from NYT
As Donald Trump tries to silence the EPA on climate change the glaciers are melting. An example of maps that communicate much more effectively than words alone.
Can a cartogram be a map? Can population by area in proportional relation to one another can be a form of mapping, and as such, a form of territorializing?
Sam
Michele Mauri
Cover Mania
Information is Beautiful prize winner: Cover Mania, a map showcasing the most covered songs from 1958-2010.
http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/436-cover-mania
Today’s conversation about the map of Napoleon and the Russian Campaign of 1812 made me question how fully we can trust the correlation between sets of data in maps and graphs (i.e. the seemingly direct relationship between temperature and death rates). Surely there must have been other factors at hand.
‘Spurious Correlations’ an absurd website that links sets of nearly identical, yet completely unrelated sets of data.
Example pairings of spurious data pairings include:
See more uncanny pairings here.
Interesting group to check out with an array of data visualization projects.
“DensityDesign is a Research Lab in the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano. It focuses on the visual representation of complex social, organizational and urban phenomena. Although producing, collecting, and sharing information has become much easier, robust methods and effective visual tools are still needed to observe and explore the nature of complex issues.
Our research aim is to exploit the potential of information visualization and information design and provide innovative and engaging visual artifacts to enable researchers and scholars to build solid arguments. By rearranging numeric data, reinterpreting qualitative information, locating information geographically, and building visual taxonomies, we can develop a diagrammatic visualization—a sort of graphic shortcut—to describe and unveil the hidden connections of complex systems. Our visualizations are open, inclusive, and preserve multiple interpretations of complex phenomena.
DensityDesign is committed to collaborating with other researchers and organizations devoted to academic independence and rigor, open enquiry, and risk taking to enhance our understanding of the world.”
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