The Qualitative Chart Chooser

This is quite useful: The Qualitative Chart Chooser 3.0

Here's an oldie!

Cutting-edge (in 1999): the website for my dissertation, complete with pictures. Note: those are all scans off 35 mm slides.

Street Tours

Seen on Maps Mania: Street Tours is a quick way to combine Google Street View and Maps into an interactive and annotated tour. It's not the most elegant of interfaces, but it is simple, quick, and does what it is supposed to do.

2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation

Instructional Moves (IM)

Instructional Moves (IM) is pretty cool, especially the videos that show the 'moves' in-action.

Social Media Update 2016

Here's the 2016 Pew Research Center survey of social media use in the USA: Social Media Update 2016. It is interesting to see some of the difference between 'perceived' importance (aka. noise) and 'real' importance of social media platforms, for example: only 25 percent of Americans use Twitter and only 10 percent of those use it on a daily basis.

Here's an interesting table:

Cape Cod 1984 to 2017

This is nice: changes to the beaches, spits, and barrier island location at southeastern tip of Cape Cod between 1984 and 2017.

Silly, but fun: Outline Maps

Silly, but fun: Outline Maps - try it!

R you sure?

Here's a nice piece: R vs. Python - which one should you learn?

Spatial Analysis via Story Maps

Look: Story Maps are great, but perhaps not the best way to visualize and perform spatial analysis. Still, it can be done and Speaking the “Language” of Spatial Analysis via Story Maps provides a nice and updated list of such examples.

The Geoengineering Map

https://map.geoengineeringmonitor.org/

2017 NMC Horizon Report

The 2017 NMC Horizon Report is out. From their website: "...an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education".

Laura Guertin has a nice summary of the key trends, significant challenges, and important developments as identified in the report.

Here's what I took away from it after reading the summary preview:

• University classrooms should look like real-world work and social environments to "facilitate organic interactions and cross-disciplinary problem solving" - that's considered a mid-term trend (3 to 5 years adoption). I have a suggestion: have a look at an elementary school classroom...it's not that difficult.
• It's all about measured and and personalized adaptive learning with learning analytics in an online setting - this is supposed to empower the student to take-charge of their learning. Here the online platform (aka Big Brother) adapts itself to the student and aggregates the data across a large student sample to adapt the broader curriculum. All this is controlled by the Next-Generation LMS or Next-Generation Digital Learning Environments (NGDLE).
• Engage in teaching and learning beyond the traditional school day = a Trojan Horse for online education.
• Mobile learning - good: pen and paper are mobile.

This is so trite and obvious...

2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology

In case you are interested: 2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology.

Seismic Illumination

Seismic Illumination is a richly-illustrated Story Map.

Strava Global Heatmap

Very cool and useful for finding new trails: Strava Global Heatmap

The Anthropocene

This looks promising: An Anthropocene Primer

WXshift

This is pretty nice: WXshift allows you to select your region, state, or zip code of interest and then plot climatic trends (similar to the NOAA Climate Explorer).

Mapping Oral Histories

Placing Oral Histories - A Visualization of Four Syrian Refugees' Narratives of Displacement is a nice application of a Story Map and Oral History Mapping with ArcGIS Online explains the mapping and design process.