There are many types of maps that are used to display data. Choropleths and Cartograms provide two great examples. I gave a talk, long long ago, about some of these map varieties. Most of these more common map types focus on a particular variable that is displayed. But what if you have multiple variables that you would like to present on a map at the same time? Here is my attempt to collect examples of multivariate maps I’ve found and organize them into a loose categorization. Follow along, or dive into the references, to spur on your own investigations and inspirations! Before we begin, ce ..read more

For OpenVis Conf 2016, we had the wonderful opportunity of offering workshops to conference goers. In collaboration with my amazingly talented coworker, Yannick Assogba, we created a brand new, full day, text analysis and visualization workshop. It was a lot of hard work, but it was all worth it. For one magical day, we overcame internet difficulties and hurdled bad IT policy to provide an experience that impacted deeply my teaching approach and was universally enjoyed by our 30+ attendees. Overview The workshop content is available here. We started with A series of Jupyter notebooks t ..read more