Week 4 - (Geo)Visualization + Choropleths

This lecture is partly inspired by (Rey, 2015) and (Tufte, 1983).

Slides

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To do before class

• (Short) video on data visualisation by Nathan Yau
• Lecture on “Statistical maps” by Luc Anselin (link to 25min video).
• The Conversation piece on the Flint case, where the MAUP played a key role.
• Spend the rest of the prep hour browsing through his excellet blog, Flowing Data.

Related readings

• (Yau, 2011)’s book “Visualize this” is a good general introduction to visualisation.
• (Brewer, 2015)’s Designing Better Maps covers several aspects of building effective geovisualisations.
• Choropleth chapter from the GDS Book (in progress).
• Color palettes for maps in ColorBrewer.

References

1. Brewer, C. (2015). Designing better Maps: A Guide for GIS users. ESRI press.
2. Rey, S. (2015). Geovisualization. In GPH471: Geographic Information Analysis. Lecture slides from course taught at Arizona State University.
3. Tufte, E. R. (1983). The visual display of quantitative information. Graphics press Cheshire, CT.
4. Yau, N. (2011). Visualize this: the FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics. John Wiley & Sons.