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Hello!I am Szymon PifczykI am a mapmaker, I dry imaginary towns and I became a journalist by a total coincidence
You can contact me at:[email protected]
“All the good things, they come from America”
- a man with a truly tremendous haircut (he most likely said it)
60,000 That’s how much faster we process visuals compared to texts
2xThat’s how many more likes does a photo get on Facebook compared to text status
94%That’s how much more views are attracted by content with large visuals compared to content with no visuals
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MAPS ARE BIG AND COLORFUL
VISUALSand people - particularly people
on the Internet - are attracted to color
EVERYONE’S DOING IT
The New York Times’ Upshot has set a high standard for visualizing data on maps and other news outlets such as The Washington Post, Guardian, Die Zeit and others follow the lead.
© The N
ew York Tim
es
MOST-COMMON GIS SOFTWARE
ArcGISThe behemoth created and developed by Californian firm ESRI. Commercial, costs a lot of $$$. Impressive capabilities.
QGISAn open-source alternative to ArcGIS. Free, a little less capable but completely enough for most non-professional users.
RStatistical package R offers some GIS components and can create amazing maps but imho the required coding effort is too heavy compared to the outcome in most cases.
➜ Lack of data - in particular geographic data (shapefiles and similar)
➜ Low granularity of data➜ Beginner’s mistakes
ANYTHING OBSTACLES?
Thanks!Any questions?You can find me at:@szpifczyk (twitter) facebook.com/[email protected]
CREDITS
Special thanks to the awesome people who created this presentation template and who uploaded some of the photos used here
➜ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival➜ Photographs by Pixabay