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Notes on maps & visual storytelling

Tutorials, breakdowns, and essays on cartography, remote sensing, and data visualization.

February 12, 2013

Big Data Social Science Poster Session

As part of the NSF IGERT in Big Data Social Science, Pond Lab hosted a public poster session this afternoon. A total of eleven different posters were presented, covering topics in big data that ranged from text processing and visualizing uncertainty to computing voter sentiment and analyzing data of patients’ heart rates. I presented work on a GeoVISTA project that leverages geovisual analytics and Twitter to help users make sense of the spatiotemporal variation of place and topic mentions within hundreds of millions of tweets.

January 11, 2013

Mapping Tools – Analysis and Visualization of Spatial Data

I had the pleasure of being invited to talk about mapping tools at the Hacking Science Hands on Sessions, led by professor and tech enthusiast Marcel Salathé. “Mapping tools” is a pretty broad topic and it’s impossible to cover the whole scope of cartography, GIScience, and the suite of existing software in a single hour. So I took attendants on a whirlwind tour of tools, both open source and not, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each.