Week 9, December 4: Visualization, part III – Mapping

Pre-class reading

• When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps, by Matthew Ericson, 2011
• So You Want To Make a Map…, by Noah Veltman, 2013
• Mapping where English is not the language at home, by Dan Keating and Darla Cameron, 2013
• crime.chicagotribune.com, by the Chicago Tribune News Apps Team, ongoing

What we’ll cover

• Common geodata formats: Shapefiles, KML, and GeoJSON.
• Mapping with Fusion Tables.
• Mapping with JavaScript.

Post-class assignments

• If the data for your long-term project has a geographic component, map it with either Fusion Tables or JavaScript. If not, do the same for either the FEC data from Week 5 or the Facebook data from Week 8. Is this data better presented as a map, or some other sort of visualization? Explain why.