Chart Fail

https://flowingdata.com/2020/06/24/bad-bar-chart/

Kilembe Flooding (May 2020)

I was there last summer - this is devastating for this community. Here's the JustGiving crowd-funding link by Andrew Wielochowski.

The WebPlotDigitizer

The WebPlotDigitizer is awesome: a) add a chart, b) 'georeference' it, c) get the data. Way back in the 1990s there was a PC-based tool like that.

Mrs. Brainmocker

http://hackeducation.com/2020/06/21/imaginary

Push-Button Education

This is not new, but timely right now: The Ed-Tech Imaginary

Making Music with MS Excel

This is awesome at some many levels:

The Trade Winds

Climate Extremes: Rainfall / Flooding

Everest From Above

This could be cool: Everest From Above. Alas, hidden behind the pay wall. Lame.

(Glacier) Timelines

Cool science-art project visualizing glacier recession in the Swiss Alps: Timelines. I really like the dual drone footage (see example below). For more 'traditional' data viz approach, see this: So schmolzen die Schweizer Gletscher in 160 Jahren weg.

Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition

Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition is out today. This is a good book, really. And I like books. And I think tutorial books are very useful. But - still - actually printing a book like that for something like as dynamic as Web GIS feels a little too-retro perhaps in 2020.

Morphcode Explorer

Morphcode Explorer looks super-cool: it's basically an urban analysis tool to access location information based on any geography. Of course, there's a catch: it is currently only available for NYC and will probably only be available for major cities around the world. Until then: use Esri's BAO and CAO.

Look: A Plotter!

This is just fun to watch: Boom & Bust: A History of Oil Prices and Consumption

The Rise and Fall of Coronavirus Cases

Great chart and animation by ProPublica: States Are Reopening: See How Coronavirus Cases Rise or Fall (embedded as an animated GIF below).

The Conspiracy Theory Handbook

Here's something that connects climate change and COVID-19: conspiracy theories! The Conspiracy Theory Handbook by Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook explains how to identify and deal with those.

Blast from the past!

Now what for white people like me?

Want to do something - here are a few options:

1. Sign this: Call for a Robust Anti-Racism Plan for The Geosciences
2. Robin DiAngelo: 5 Tasks for white people
3. 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
4. Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus

May 2020

Yep, May 2020 was a warm one. Just not in central/eastern Europe, Australia, and much of the eastern USA.

Black Lives Matter from Space!

Most Americans Still Trust Scientists

Climate Deniers

Python Scripting and ArcGIS Pro

Looks like Esri Press is releasing two new books: Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro and Advanced Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro.

'Mapping' Art

Here are a few recent example of 'mapping' art in the broadest sense:

• Matthew Paris' 13-Century Map of Great Britain
• The Drawing Lesson
• The Gross Clinic (NYT)
• Duerer Self-Portrait (NYT)

Mapping under the forest canopy

This is not new at all, but a nice example what you can do with Lidar: Large-scale early Maya sites in Mexico revealed by lidar mapping technology.

Publishing a Scientific Paper

This is great: The Scientific Publishing Process ($20 on Etsy). You can also look at the individual panels on Flickr.

DataWorthSeeing on Etsy