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Content for Monday, November 11, 2024–Friday, November 15, 2024

Readings

It looks like this is a lot of reading, but lots of these are short videos or tweets or interactive websites, so don’t worry!

Possible questions to reflect on

This is not a required list!

Remember, you don’t need to answer all of these—or even any of them! These are just here to help guide your thinking. All that matters is that you show good engagement with the readings.

  • How can you know if a map projection is truthful or misleading?
  • What’s wrong (or not wrong) with using points on maps? Choropleths? Lines?

Other resources

If you want to understand how the magic geometry column actually works, check out this fantastic post.

Check out this post where someone used {ggplot2} and {sf} to create fancy city map-based art that she printed for a friend. You can do similar things after this session!

In addition to the example for this session, you can check out this tutorial on using the {sf} package to create maps. It shows how to include fancy map stuff like a north arrow and scale bar.

Slides

The slides for this week’s lesson are available online as an HTML file. Use the buttons below to open the slides either as an interactive website or as a static PDF (for printing or storing for later). You can also click in the slides below and navigate through them with your left and right arrow keys.

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Tip

Fun fact: If you type ? (or shift + /) while going through the slides, you can see a list of special slide-specific commands.

Videos

Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.

You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:

References

Cairo, Alberto. 2016. The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication. Berkeley, California: New Riders.
Healy, Kieran. 2018. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press. http://socviz.co/.