{"id":51,"date":"2007-06-11T21:32:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T02:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/data-visualization-with-maps\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T20:21:22","slug":"data-visualization-with-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/data-visualization-with-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Visualization with Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to show relationships in data is also one of the oldest: maps.  There are lots of cool, fun visualizations out there like topic maps and tag clouds, but sometimes they emphasize form over function (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2003\/information-visualizations-and-spatial-maps-on-the-web-%e2%80%93-usability-concerns\/\">and usability<\/a>).   Maps can be a great choice, even if your data is not directly geographical.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one example:   a map of the United States showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unsoughtinput.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/16\/pop-vs-soda-vs-coke\/\">where people use the terms &#8220;soda,&#8221; &#8220;pop,&#8221; or &#8220;coke.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/popvssoda.com:2998\/images\/smalldrawn.gif\" height=\"265\" width=\"583\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You might think this one was a pretty obvious choice, but you could definitely imagine someone using a pie chart to show the total percentages instead, throwing out a ton of information in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one that&#8217;s a little more clever: a map of the United States, which <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/10\/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps\/\">each state labeled by a country with the same GDP<\/a>. from strange maps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/states-gdp.png\" alt=\"states-gdp.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, you could argue with the precision of presentation since most people don&#8217;t know the exact GDP of Algeria off the top of their heads.   But show them a table of figures and ten minutes later they still won&#8217;t know.   This is a much more interesting and memorable presentation of the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to show relationships in data is also one of the oldest: maps. There are lots of cool, fun visualizations out there like topic maps and tag clouds, but sometimes they emphasize form over function (and usability). Maps can be a great choice, even if your data is not directly geographical. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[759,109,96,746,108],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-blog","tag-information-design","tag-maps","tag-usability","tag-visualizations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}