Reading for Project 2, Mapping Experience, by Mark Trieb

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Where/Abouts, Else-Where Mapping, Janet Abrams, Peter Hall

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Other mapping posts:

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Victoria Schwanda’s Ice Skating Map

Brynn Shepherd’s ZOOM

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Cell-phone mapping

Mapping Super Heroes

In Envisioning Information Edward Tufte describes micro/macro narratives. These narratives are actually small, detailed stories that make up larger coherent stories. “Simplicity of reading,” he writes, “derives from the context of detailed and complex information, properly arranged.” He goes on to describe the rich interface to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington that is largely dependent on the chronological rather than the alphabetic listing of the names of 58, 000 dead soldiers. Jan Scruggs and Joel Swerdlow write in To Heal a Nation, that “chronological listing was essential to designer Maya Lin’s vision for the memorial. War veterans would find their story told, and their friends remembered, in the panel that corresponded to their tour of duty…. Locating names would be like finding bodies on a battlefield.” And when names are found, after walking downward into the memorial’s slight grade, visitors see their own living reflections and the names of the soldiers in the etched polished black granite.

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Jer Thorp’s Algorithm for 9/11 Memorial

The Wawaverse – Foobooz

http://www.good.is/post/who-cares-about-romney-s-money-what-matters-is-how-he-d-tax-it/

Jing, could you please contact the designers – MGMT Design – and ask them to cite sources for this graphic? thanks, David

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkJAcIBYEYk&feature=channel_video_title

More comparative visualizations regarding 2010-2011 winter snowfall, here.

This is a nice summary of whats going on – might be a little biased, but its still a visually pleasing video!

1: Comparisons
Show comparisons, contrasts, and differences. The fundamental analytical act in statistical reasoning is to answer the question “Compared to what?”

2: Causality
Show causality, mechanism, explanation, and systematic structure.  How was the information that is represented caused? What are the sources of differences and variability in the measurements?

3 Multivariate Analysis
Show multivariate analysis; that is show more than 1 or 2 variables. Depicting the conditions under which a cause and effect occur quickly becomes multivariate. We live in a profoundly multi-dimensional world so escape from the 2-D flatland of paper and computer screen.

4 Integration of Evidence
Completely integrate words, numbers, images, diagrams, graphics, charts, etc. Sound inferences are rarely made by distinguishing among different modes of evidence. What maters entirely is the evidence, not the particular mode of evidence.

5 Documentation
Thoroughly describe the evidence. Provide a detailed title, indicate the authors and sponsors, document the data sources, show complete measurement scales, point out relevant issues. Credibility, bias, and responsibility of authorship must be taken into account when accessing evidence.

6 Content Counts Most of All
Analytical presentations ultimately stand and fall depending on the quality, relevance, and integrity of their content. Gratuitous design devices (“chart junk”) cannot salvage failed content.

His other work is here.