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Readings due before class on Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Required

• Chapter 10 in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful ArtAlberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016).
  
  
• Chapter 7 in Kieran Healy, Data VisualizationKieran Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), http://socviz.co/.
  
  

It looks like this is a lot of reading, but lots of these are short videos or tweets or interactive websites, so don’t worry!

• Why all world maps are wrong
• The True Size Of…
• Map projections
• Gall-Peters Projection
• “When Maps Lie”
• Animated Mercator distortion
• “These Twisted Maps Prove That America Isn’t a Red Country”
• “The next great fake news threat? Bot-designed maps”
• “New World Map That Accurately Shows Earth in 2D Created by Scientists”

Questions to reflect on

• How can you know if a map projection is truthful or misleading?
• What’s wrong (or not wrong) with using points on maps? Choropleths? Lines?