Towards the end of the year (and as 2014 began crawling), we’ve seen a number of map and visualization reviews online. Instead of making another one, we decided to ‘bookmark’ them here for you, i.e. here’s a list of five places that offered the ‘year in review’ (in no particular order): Wired’s Map Lab created a gallery of “The Most Amazing, Beautiful and Viral Maps of the Year“. There are 15 of them. Gizmodo selected “13 Best maps of 2013….
St. Andrews Uni in Scotland is recruiting *two* permanent lecturers, one in Remote Sensing and the other in Spatial Statistics. In case you are interested or would like to distribute the news, here’s more information: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/ViewVacancy.aspx?enc=mEgrBL4XQK0+ld8aNkwYmJWWxMKOiBDV0FXX11DI5Gyh87NmhZxOIPcmw3RH0FTg9bJ0o0AhSm43tkkCKTCzd7+WGpvfSNLeJX4KGnkoR1uSGPdD0vLhrPoyyyiDMfvQ
These days everyone can make maps (or can they?) 🙂 Here are some sensible tips about making maps, if you find the temptation in you and you are not quite sure what you are doing. It doesn’t cover the entire cartography education but it’s a great start, aptly called “unrequested map tips” (it’s entertaining too!): 20 Unrequested Map Tips, Part I http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2013/10/20-unrequested-map-tips-part-1.html 20 Unrequested Map Tips, Part II http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2013/11/20-unrequested-map-tips-part-2.html
I ‘nicked’ the title entirely from a newspaper (news .. website, not truly paper I suppose). They covered it nicely and I think it’s a new relevant to our readership here so I’m happy to point at the original link. I quote, as an appetizer: “The Center for Urban Science and Progress, a new research center that recently welcomed its first students and faculty in downtown Brooklyn, certainly has its eyes on the city.” http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/09/school-devoted-entirely-science-cities/6977/ And I quote again: ”…
Various members from our working group was present in the International Cartographic Conference which took place about two weeks ago in Dresden and many were actively involved presenting papers, chairing sessions and participating/holding business meetings. I figured an update regarding this conference may be of interest to our readers: the proceedings of the ICC2013 is now online, along with the map exhibition catelogue (which ought to interest the readers of this blog) as well as the technical exhibition catalogue. All…
After two days of pre-conference workshops, today the 26th ICC conference began (http://www.icc2013.org/). The whole week we have talks on maps from all aspects. Several of our members are here in Dresden too – if you are into maps (well, of course you are!) take a look at the official tweet account @icc2013DD or the hashtag #icc2013DD.
1) Two new permanent lectureships with an emphasis on visualization and visual analytics are available in the Department of Computer Science at City University London. Post 1: Visual and Analytic Computing [permanent, full time, deadline June 10, 2013] Academic focus on Information Visualization, Visual Analytics or Information Retrieval: http://j.mp/city2013visualAnalyticComputing Post 2: Applied Data Science [permanent, full time, deadline June 10, 2013] Academic focus on Information Analytics, Information Visualization and business processes: http://j.mp/city2013appliedDataScience Talk to Jo Wood or Jason Dykes about…
You surely have heard of “MOOCs” (short for Massive Open Online Course). There are hundreds of classes that one can participate online, by prominent professors from well-known universities. And hundreds, and sometimes hundreds-of-thousands people seem to do it (take these classes). This is an exciting development as it allows people to get a taste of something potentially very expensive*, and likely to be unreachable because of boundaries and other space/time constraints, even if you had the money. If you actually…
Below are two TEDx talks by fellow geovisualization/GIScience folks with two different focuses we just had to share with you: Here, Mark Graham (Uni Oxford) talks about “Internet and information geographies, and the overlaps between ICTs and economic development” with plenty of visuals (~22min): TEDxBradford – Mark Graham – Internet & Information Geographies And here, Jo Wood (City Uni, London) talks about bikes! 16 million journeys by bike in London, with beautiful visualizations (~15 min): London Moves, visualising 16 million…
Some of our WG members are in the program committee for CUPUM2013, and we just received a reminder. I dutifully pass this on to our blog followers. Maybe of interest to some of you: — This is a reminder to inform you about the approaching deadline for submission of Full Conference Papers for the CUPUM Conference (deadline February 15, 2013). Please also see: http://cupum2013.geo.uu.nl. We really hope this will provide you with sufficient opportunity to submit a conference paper in…