was responding to Stephen Hornsby’s position paper, in which he comments on the poor cartographic quality of most GIS visualizations. He says, “Fourth, the GIS that I have seen always seem clunky. The aesthetic representation of data in a GIS hardly seems to have been addressed. I have yet to see a GIS that comes close to the work of a good cartographer.” Cartography is a powerful form of communication, but to be effective, a cartographic representation must be carefully designed to convey the desired message. A GIS visualization will seldom accomplish this end because it is frequently cluttered with data that distracts from what the creator wants to communicate and the current GIS software packages still do not permit cartographic production of the highest quality. Frankly, many GIS users do not know much about cartography. Maps and other forms of visual information can certainly carry narratives, as David Staley asserted, but to do so, they must be well designed to communicate clearly the intended message. David has written about the need for such effective visualization designs.
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DEBATE: What can GIS offer World History? « History Compass Exchanges - 2 views
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Ooh, the best part of this is in the comments on the blog post! The readers are SERIOUS about the topic!
Beyond Bullet Points Online - 0 views
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Interesting application of multimedia principles and storytelling to Powerpoint presentations
StoryMapping - 0 views
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a combination of digital storytelling with geographic information
Sparklines by Edward Tufte - 0 views
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As described by Tufte, sparklines are "intense, simple, word-sized graphics". Question: are there specific types of educational content/subject areas that are most amenable to the use of sparklines?
How Stuff Works - 0 views
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Provides lots of interactive animations of several phenomena with associated explanations.
Thinking Maps - A Language for Learning - 1 views
How to lie with statistics and graphs - 1 views
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The section on graphs (in the second half of the page) describes how our perspective can be 'deceived' by presenting information in certain ways.
7 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs - 1 views
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Flowing data (the site) is amazing in general, this article gives great insight into 7 rules for making charts and graphs
Infographics - GOOD - 1 views
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A magazine known for their interesting and innovative infographics. Thanks to Rob Lamb for the reference.
Timeline of Computer History - 2 views
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Provides an easy-to-use and informative tour of key technologies, people and institutions in computing during the period 1930 - 1994.
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