Space

Readings

• Chapter 15: Visualizing geospatial data of Fundamentals of Data Visualization

Optional readings

• Chapter 7: Draw maps of Data Visualization
• Drawing beautiful maps programmatically with R, sf and ggplot2
• Vox: Why all world maps are wrong
• Bloomberg: When maps lie
• xkcd: Map projections

Guiding questions

• How can you know if a map projection is truthful or misleading?
• What’s wrong (or not wrong) with using points on maps? Choropleths? Lines?

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