Week 11: Cartography

Data Wrangling and Visualization

Due This Week: Problem Set 9

Readings & Reference Material

Lecture: An Introduction to Cartography

Reading

• Core Reading
  • DV, ch 7
  • “Color, Classification, and Choropleth Symbolization”
• Cartography Illustrations
  • Why all world maps are wrong
  • How to avoid being fooled by bad maps
  • Projection comparison
  • The True Size Of
• Reference Materials
  • Field, Cartography. A foundational guide to cartography with a computer.
  • There are any number of books through which you can get a feel for good cartography (a good atlas, for instance). Here are some more thematic favorites of mine:
    • Jenkins & Keal, The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park
    • Banis & Shore, Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas
    • Shore & Banis, Upper Left Cities: A Cultural Atlas of San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle
    • Hatfield, Kempson, & Ross, Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas
    • Archer et al, Atlas of American Politics, 1960-2000
    • Archer et al, Atlas of Nebraska
    • Schulten, Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
    • Thames & Hudson, The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live
  • See next week for geographic data materials

Due Next Week: Problem Set 10