Storyline JS is a fun tool: take a simple Google Sheet with time series data and annotate dates/times of interest with interactive cards. That's it. Simple.
Timeline JS is similar, but offers more features with embedded media to illustrate events over time.
Both are in a sense story maps, but here the main organizational frame is time, not space.
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
First You Make the Maps
First You Make the Maps is just awesome - a great visual narrative of how maps enabled and shaped global trade using an immersive Story Map.
The Geographies of Innovation
Seen on Maps Mania: The Geographies of Innovation
And, I agree: these maps are beautiful, artistic, and technologically very high-end. But, they are also confusing, too dense, and just 'too much' data viz wizardry. Thus, they fail that what is perhaps the most-important reason for data viz: telling a data-driven story that your audience finds compelling enough to take action.
And, I agree: these maps are beautiful, artistic, and technologically very high-end. But, they are also confusing, too dense, and just 'too much' data viz wizardry. Thus, they fail that what is perhaps the most-important reason for data viz: telling a data-driven story that your audience finds compelling enough to take action.
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Travel Times to US State Capitals
I guess it all started with Rome and now they have extended the basic analysis to US state capitals:
Friday, May 31, 2019
Geography and Poetry
Or: poetry about place and places - a great DH example.
- Places of Poetry
- Poems about Places: The Poetry Atlas
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