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Metis, New York, 2016

Aurelia Moser, CartoDB | @auremoser | aurelia@mozillafoundation.org

STORYTELLING FROM SPACE

spacetime, citizen science, and open source maps

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heat islands - 2002

Buffalo, NY

Providence, RI

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Mexico

Guatemala

natural borders - 1989

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natural borders - 1989

Mexico

Guatemala

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Losing Ground, http://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/

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slide from j. larson, ProPublica, GeoJourNews 2015

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iceland isomap, cartodb, tinyurl.com/cdb-iceland

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indian election map, cartodb, http://tinyurl.com/cdb-indiatweet

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#sunrise map, http://cartodb.s3.amazonaws.com/static_vizz/sunrise.html

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inspiration: spacetime

how to build multi-dimensional maps

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spacetime

math model that combines space and time into a single interwoven continuum;

a manifold consisting of “events” which are described by some type of coordinate system.

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inspiration: nasa

science, stellar photos, landsat imagery

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2013

epecuén: shrinking lakes

1986

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“Now that the entire Landsat archive is freely available it has become economically feasible to monitor disturbance over large areas using satellite time series.”

~ Todd Schroeder,

USDA Forest Service, 2014

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make awesome not aweful maps

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engine for epic maps

software to support citizen cartographers

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Disputed Territories, http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/

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Bhutan, 2014, via Google Maps

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SQL

CartoCSS

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code

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utility

brazil-election

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product

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BROWSER

CartoDB.JS

Odyssey.JS

Torque.JS

Vecnik.JS

Leaflet/GMaps/OLayers

Varnish Stuff

PostgreSQL

PostGIS

Maps API

SQL API

Mapnik

Torque

Redis

CartoDB Server API

AWS Elastics

ImportsAPI

RESTAPI

PostgreSQL/GIS

AWS Elastics

EDITOR

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accounts:

https://cartodb.com/signup?plan=academy

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code

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utility

study groups

fellowships

collaborate

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product

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map science

applying the scientific method to maps

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global forest watch, http://www.globalforestwatch.org/

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global forest watch, http://www.globalforestwatch.org/

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illustreets econ report, http://illustreets.co.uk/

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curves on the northeast corridor, http://nyti.ms/1DwPqaC

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http://mdweaver.github.io/times_year

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technique in timeseries

spacetime in a box

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“This is not a map”

Platform

Data services

Your data

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Torque DataCube

slices of data on the client

flux capacitor for maps

tiling data, data3

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THINGS

x

PLACES

y

TIME

z

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Time Suck

CON

Fast

Light

Cachy

Lossy

PRO

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Time Suck

CON

Fast

Light

Cachy

Lossy

PRO

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Torque Encoding

delta encoding

gzip compression

binning by step

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1.3M tweets

800K points

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Torque CSS Conditionals

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Torque Tweets Up-Close

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Platform

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Platform

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data-driven cartography

thematic maps and spacetime science

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Weather Map 1871 (7:35AM), Internet Archive Digitization Project

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fires in the amazon (2012-2014), http://infoamazonia.org/projects/fire/

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animal track map, http://robbykraft.github.io/AnimalTrack/

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bird watching + comparison

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bird migrations: http://www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/

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las vegas tourist traffic, cartodb, tinyurl.com/cdb-tourist

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Chicago Sun Times: snowplow heatmaps, tinyurl.com/snow-cdb

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Torque for Media

GDELT: Public Profile, gdelt.cartodb.com

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GNS, gns.gdeltproject.org

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telling the future

building modern ‘mappa mundi’

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mappa mundi

“schematic [maps] made to illustrate principals;

a kind of teaching aid;

never meant to be used as navigational charts;

meant to preserve and illustrate classical learning easily.”

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more open data

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more projections

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more tutorials

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more raster maps

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VecNik

MapNik

more vector maps

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more basemaps

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more partnerships: spacetime.nypl.org

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grants: nonprofit + startup

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one-click maps

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more resolution: satellite captures

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science lab fellows: aerial bold

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code:

https://github.com/CartoDB

accounts:

https://cartodb.com/signup

torque:

http://cartodb.github.io/torque/

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thank you!

@auremoser

aurelia@mozillafoundation.org