Wealth Divides

Wealth Divides is a pretty impressive Esri Story Map.

Data Viz MOOCs

This sequence sounds interesting: the Information Visualization Specialization offered by Coursera.

Machine Teaching and Learning

Good stuff by Audrey Watters: Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education.

I like the 'black box society' quote from Frank Pasquale: “The term ‘black box,’” he writes, “is a useful metaphor… given its own dual meaning. It can refer to a recording device, like the data-monitoring systems in planes, trains, and cars. Or it can mean a system whose workings are mysterious; we can observe its inputs and outputs, but we cannot tell how one becomes the other. We face these two meanings daily: tracked ever more closely by firms and government, we have no clear idea of just how far much of this information can travel, how it is used, or its consequences.”

And: “knowledge is power. To scrutinize others while avoiding scrutiny oneself is one of the most important forms of power.”

Lynching Maps

Maps Mania has compiled three maps related to this topic. Personally I find the simple dot map especially intense because it is 'just' a simple dot map: One Dot for every Lynching Victim in the US 1883-1930.

REMA

REMA is the new DEM for Antarctica - explore it here as the REMA Hillshade Viewer (using Esri ArcGIS Online).

One Chart, Many Tools

Interesting: here the author took a data set and charted in a bunch of different tools:

• One Chart, Nine Tools – Revisited
• One Chart, Twelve Tools
• One Chart, Twelve Charting Libraries
• What I Learned Recreating One Chart Using 24 Tools

Unfortunately, the situation here has changed for the worse in my opinion - there is simply no good and free option out there, especially for creating online and interactive charts. Maybe it's time to go offline again and just use https://www.libreoffice.org/? Or just admit defeat and go 100 percent Google or Esri?

Hurricane Michael Damage Viewer

Hurricane Michael Damage Viewer is an Esri Story Map showing before and after images. Certainly visual and important (perhaps) for recovery efforts, but also an example of 'disaster porn' that has become the norm these days.

Google Sheets Test #1

Datawrapper Test #1

The chart as a link.

Where we live, block by block

There is nothing really new about Where we live, block by block - just an interactive web map showing racial demographics at the census block level.

AirMap

AirMap is a quick and interactive web map for drone users to see local airspace restrictions and other important information needed to plan a drone 'mission'.

Minard in Tableau

See it here: Charles Minards's famous map rendered in Tableau.

USGS Streamer

USGS Streamer is fun, but I'm not sure what I would use it for.

Chromebook Data Science

Not a bad idea: Chromebook Data Science is a series of MOOCs using just Chromebooks and accessible online apps for data science.

The Opportunity Atlas

The Opportunity Atlas is a great data viz with a corresponding paper and all the data available for download.

Accessing USGS Topographic Maps on The Internet

This (almost) seems outdated these days as we typically 'stream' those layers nowadays as opposed to downloading them to a local computer. Still, there is often a need to do that and Joe Kerski has compiled a nice set of sources for those Accessing USGS Topographic Maps on The Internet, for example:

• The Libre Map Project
• USGS Maps
• USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer
• topoView
• https://www.historicaerials.com/