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Don’t Make a Map*

Martin Burch

The Wall Street Journal

@seecmb

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Paste

relevant

XKCD

here

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Population Density Map (Source: NASA)

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Population dot map (Source: Cooper Center)

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What Do You Mean?

Justin Bieber�Source: Joe Bielawa

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Heatmap (Source: Peter Aldhous)

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Small multiples (Source: Huffington Post)

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Small multiples (Source: Huffington Post)

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Gridded small multiples, new dataset (Source: Washington Post)

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Heatmap (Source: Peter Aldhous)

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Gridded small multiples, new dataset (Source: Washington Post)

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Location data are bad

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US states map (Source: Wikipedia)

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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Source: ColorBrewer2.org

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How to not make a map

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PATHOMAP

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Where’s

the map?

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PATHOMAP

SUBGERMS

CITYDNA

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😱

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Hans Rosling

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The New York Times

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The New York Times

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The New York Times

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Carto Compromises

Locator map
Callout map
Cartogram
Geospatial ordering

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Locator map and table (Source: The Guardian)

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Locator map and table (Source: The Guardian)

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Carto Compromises

Locator map
Callout map
Cartogram
Geospatial ordering

Cartogram (Source: WHOI)

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Geospatial ordering (Source: The Wall Street Journal)

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You may say I’m a dreamer

The End of Maps in 7 Charts�Darla Cameron, The Washington Post, 2015

When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps�Matthew Ericson, The New York Times, 2011

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“Leave it to the professionals!”

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Source: GIS Certification Institute

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Always make a map

*

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Always make a map

but don’t always publish it.

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Always make a map

but don’t always publish it.

https://goo.gl/WZqK0c