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There are so many varied web resources for (geospatial) data visualization. It is a HUGE field. The following represents some of the resources available from software to academic articles to cool interesting mapping web sites. This list is obviously not exhaustive and changes so rapidly. I have updated this list as of September 2017. A huge thank-you to Joey Lee<\/a> for providing much of this input (see below for his cool and inspiring resources). Here<\/a> is one of Joey’s local visualizations using software CARTO that you will learn this term.<\/p>\n

Cartographic Research<\/strong> (journals)<\/p>\n

organ state web site list all cartography journals and latest issues<\/a><\/p>\n

Software<\/strong><\/p>\n

GIS<\/em>
\nQuantum GIS <\/a> – FOSS (free & open source software)
\nArcGIS UBC Student Edition<\/a> \u2013 $25 for a year<\/p>\n

Graphics<\/em>
\nAdobe Illustrator <\/a> \u2013 free 30 day trial version
\nInkscape<\/a> – FOSS graphic design
\nGIMP<\/a> – FOSS photo editor like Photoshop<\/p>\n

Interactive mapping<\/em>
\nCARTO<\/a>\u00a0– SAAS (and perhaps too freemium) (SAAS – software as a service – ie free but charge for hosting, big datasets) interactive mapping software this site also has a good blog for examples of location mapping
\nMapbox<\/a> SAAS interactive mapping software<\/p>\n

Programming<\/em>
\nPython<\/a> – very popular language and used by data visuzliazationist for manipulating geospatial data – many learning tools, free tutorials on ESRI’s web site for example, python used in ArcGIS
\nR<\/a>\u00a0and R Studio<\/a> – FOSS see some examples below from Joey, R is a statistical programming language and R with leaflet allows the creation of interactive maps (R for data manipulation and leaflet for mapping)
\nLeaflet<\/a>\u00a0a javascript library lets you code interactive maps with say R
\nJavaScript<\/a> – programming language for web design – used with other mapping packages like leaflet, D3
\nD3.js<\/a>– a JavaScript library for manipulation DataDrivenDocuments. used for alot of infographics<\/p>\n

Tools
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\nColorBrewer<\/a>
\nTypeBrewer<\/a>\u00a0(being rewritten from FLASH to HTML)
\nMapShaper<\/a>\u00a0(software for editing Shapefile, GeoJSON, TopoJSON and other data formats, written in JavaScript.<\/p>\n

Cartography and Data Visualization Blogs\/posts<\/strong>
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Instagram – A map a day
\nAndy Woodruff<\/a>
\nStrange Maps<\/a>
\nSomething About Maps<\/a>
\nCartastrophe<\/a>
\nFlowing Data<\/a>
\nInformation is Beautiful<\/a>
\nCartogrammar<\/a>\u00a0(also by Andy Woodruff)
\nMaking Maps
\nt<\/a>ype into google cool maps<\/em> and you will get some interesting sites<\/p>\n

Cartography Associations<\/strong><\/p>\n

North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)<\/a>
\nInternational Cartographic Association (ICA)<\/a>
\nAmerican Association of Geographers \u2013 Cartography Specialty Group<\/a><\/p>\n

Joey’s list !!<\/span><\/h2>\n

Joey Lee<\/a> is a super cool data viz person who helped me with this course in 2015. Check him out.
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Resources:<\/h1>\n

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Tutorials \/ Learning<\/h2>\n

General Programming Web Resources \/ Books \/ More:<\/h3>\n