Digital Mapping
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Week11VisualHierarchyandCartograms-1.pptxToday
Lab 10 and extra credit lab were due by the start of class
Today (in class assignment)
Visual Hierarchy and Cartograms
Go over Lab #11 (Written Reflection)
Tuesday (in class assignment)
Qualitative Aspects of Mapping
Go over oral presentation aspect of lab #12
Next Thursday (in class assignment)
Conclude Course
Last week – review, drop-in lecture, take home exam
What is up with the lab for this week?
Length?
3-4 pages Double Spaced 12 point type
What’s it about?
A written reflection on 3 of the 4 leaning units from this semester
This will help you prepare for the exam
Map Analysis and Interpretation: Weeks 1-3
Projections and Coordinate Systems: Weeks 4-5
Spatial Data Analysis: Weeks 6-8
Map Interpretation: Weeks 9-10
What Goes in the Written Reflection Each part is 1 page – 3 parts (3-4 pages in total)
Choose a Lab from the section you chose.
Choose a learning outcome/objective from that lab. (I added these to the last two labs)
Define this learning outcome in your own words
Draw on Class Materials like Labs, Lectures, and Packback Assignments to define the learning outcome
Explain how you accomplished this learning objective this semester
What activities did you do relate to this learning outcomes. Explain what you did in a lab, the take home exam, or a packback assignment.
Explain the successes or difficulties you had accomplishing these activities
Do Some independent research. How is the learning outcome you accomplish/the activity you participated in relate to real life problem?
Cite any outside sources you used. You pick the style (APA, MLA etc)
After you finish this flow for 3 learning units write a short conclusion/reflection on your experience in the course.
Remember what we did with classification…
Just because graphics look nice doesn’t mean they aren’t manipulative
How are you choosing to filter/organize the data?
Ecological fallacy - It matters!
This is Quantitative Literacy
Seeing Trends and Patterns
Being Critical of Data Presentation
What is the most accurate or correct classifcation!?
There is none!!!!!
Like Projections!
Men Women
18-29 over 65
Black Latino Asian White
Poor Rich
Visual Hierarchy principles
How does our mind group things together?
Drawing Attention/Signaling?
Hierarchy (What is important on the map)
Color blind folks?
Is your audience familiar with shapes/areas?
The United States?
Train your user well
Introduce concepts and increase complexity
Don’t overload the senses!
Pan and Pixel
Lesson
Less is more
Don’t let the graphics get in the way of the message
There are many fun applications but don’t go overboard
Don’t underestimate your audience
Proofread
Color and Contrast
Articulation (detail) – is it appropriate for the scale?
Shape and Contour
Proximity/Familiarity
texture
Cartogram – Another way to visualize spatial data
Area of places is represented by a magnitude of value instead of actual size…
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Why do you think cartograms work well for visualizing election data at a national scale?
Types of cartograms
AREA
Contiguous
Non-contiguous
Dorling
Which cartograms depends on your audience and other design considerations.
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Contiguous
Sharing a boundary, connecting without a break.
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Contiguous
Sharing a boundary, connecting without a break.
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Non-contiguous
The spatial units do not have to maintain connectivity with their adjacent objects.
By freeing the units from their adjacent objects, they can grow or shrink in size and still maintain their shape.
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Contiguous and Non-Contiguous Cartograms
Here is the US population example in both styles…
ENV 2006
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Why aren’t there more of these?
They are ugly!!!!
Dorling
Instead of enlarging or shrinking the objects themselves, the cartographer will replace the objects with a uniform shape, usually a circle, of the appropriate size.
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Dorling Cartogram (
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Dorling Cartogram
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Space vs Place
Quantitative/Mathematical/Abstract
Vs
Qualitative/experienced/human/complex
Just like categories of data – different tools and concepts for making sense of it
Tell me about this map?
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Other ways of understanding space…
Space as a map vs. a lived experience
Google vs. fear/joy/love
Place is full of stuff! What will you remember?
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Where is something? Why is it there?
Spatial analysis
Clustering
Size
Movement
Epistemology = way of seeing the world
Scouting vs. analytics
How do we account for affect? Feeling?
Ghosts and shit - spooky
Are there places or types of places in Philly that you avoid?
Think about it…
Math places?
Neighborhoods?
Family reunions?
Friend’s houses with creepy parents?
The zoo?
Place sets the table – makes a context
Certain spaces are designed to make you feel out of place!
What kinds rules govern place?
Who created these rules?
How do you change them?
Professionalism and what you wear?
A penguins jersey at a flyers game?
Why?
Google Maps is insensitive
Different kinds of space
Absolute space – coordinates – geolocation
Relative space – how fast can you travel from a to b (depends on your speed)
Emotional distance (Israel is closer to Brooklyn)
Indicated in the way we represent space (Mental Map)
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Place is everything to identity…
Tekashi 69 ‘The King of NY’ – IN HIGH SCHOOL YOU USED TO BE THE MAAAAAAAAAAAAN HOMIE
I’m Done recording this – I’m getting money I’m the shit
He had to say he was from NY
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Not only people… but place prejudice
“It is probably now well accepted, though it is still important to argue, that a lot of our "geography" is in the mind. That is to say we carry around with us mental images of the world, of the country in which we live (all those image of the North/South divide), of the street next door. The New Yorker's mental map of the USA, became a popular poster.”
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Terra Incognito
is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented
Where is safe/unsafe to travel too?
What neighborhoods do you look for apartments into?
Place based hierarchy and value judgements…
Later changed to the good part of town…
Place Branding
Hip Hop and Counter Branding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5WSpNTZG4
Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4
Alternatives to conceptualizing space…
Reminders
Schedule
Lab this week (Tuesday and Thursday)
No lab next week
Review up by Thursday night
Conclusion lecture Thursday (Review on Tuesday)
Exam on Thursday during lecture (Multiple Choice)
Under 75 Make Up Exam – Final Week
Contact Teaching Assistant
C- is passing for Gen Ed credit…
In-Class Assignments
At least one more
Excusing one absence/one missed
On the exam (Content/Inspiration)
Math reflection…
What you learned and larger concepts
Cognitive Overload
Making Sense of Data
Keeping it simple
Cartograms (different kinds – interpreting)
Dorling, Contingious, Non-Contiguous
Interpreting diagrams/maps
Analyze on Exam
Visual Hierarchy – What Makes a Good visualization/Map
Experiential Space and Mental Mapping
A foil to Google Maps
In and out of Place
Air BnB and Gentrification
Analyzing and Visualizing Spatial Data
Conclusion on how technology is a social process (how smart phones and location services have changed us and the way we interact)
Last Time
Google maps is very abstract (coordinate systems, projections, scale, drawing it nicely)
Think about Temple on Google vs. Hoodmaps vs. your boundaries of campus
Mental maps are messy – they are based on experiential space
Reveal insights about us
What does it mean to be out of place?
Rules for governing place (you can’t fit in)
Different kinds of space (absolute, relative, emotional)
Absolute – coordinates – xy – 100 miles
Relative – Time – How long does it take to travel 100 miles
Emotional – If you feel close to somewhere - home
What did you find out about your partner? By looking at their map?
Map is a Representation of Space… Emotionally removed…
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New Yorkers and other folks have prejudices about place
Not only people… but place prejudice
“It is probably now well accepted, though it is still important to argue, that a lot of our "geography" is in the mind. That is to say we carry around with us mental images of the world, of the country in which we live (all those image of the North/South divide), of the street next door. The New Yorker's mental map of the USA, became a popular poster.”
These mental images are contested and fought over
Ways of talking about place… thinking about gentrification being good
You live there? That must suck?
Ghetto, Sketch, not a good neighborhood, a nice neighborhood
Violence towards people and place…
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Terra Incognito
is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented
“People fear what they don’t understand – hate what they can’t conquer”
Where is safe/unsafe to travel too?
What neighborhoods do you look for apartments into?
Place based hierarchy and value judgements…
Later changed to the good part of town…
Place Branding – changing the perception of place…
I love New York, Hip Hop and Counter Branding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5WSpNTZG4
Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4
Finally - Alternatives to conceptualizing space…
