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Category Archives: This Week In Visual Representation
This Week’s Maps
NY Times Interactive Map Showing the Grid
Slate Jobs Map Continue reading
Tsunami Before and After Satellite Photos
These aren’t exactly maps, at least not by the definitions we’ve been talking about, but as far as a visual representation of data (number of homes lost, percentage of homes lost, perhaps), this is hard to beat. And note, too, that it’s extremely simple. More evidence that visual representation is at least as much about conception as technological skill:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html Continue reading
More Maps!
Mapping the History of Science Fiction:
(With apologies for offensiveness) Mapping ethnic stereotypes:
And here you can find a First Nations critique of maps as ways to enslave indigenous peoples.
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Kanye’s Brain!
Check out Kanye West’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Continue reading
more maps and charts
http://www.usablemarkets.com/2011/02/05/how-not-to-make-your-map-chart-junk/
http://pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-United-States-of-Shame.png
http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/mint-map-americas-most-frugal-cities/?display=wide
http://chronicle.com/article/Adults-With-College-Degrees-in/125995/
http://trulia.movity.com/rentvsbuy/
http://flowingdata.com/2011/01/27/map-of-scientific-collaboration-between-researchers/
A Way of Representing the Data of Love
Here’s an article from Salon which tries to get at how two very very fine book artists work together, with their own diagram of how it works, and some other diagrams (embedded in the article) of how their closeness (their love, if you want) might be measured and represented. Continue reading