Determining current uses of cartographic animation in academic geography

through a journal content analysis

@JoannaMerson

Academic publications

Non - academic Publications

Work by cool people who study how to or professionally

make cool maps and visualizations

Where do we find animated cartography?

Finding animation in academic cartography…

SELECT * FROM journals WHERE CONTAINS (animated map or dynamic map)

…I wish

2010-2014animated, animation, dynamic, interactive, time lapse, video

• Application domain• Purpose• Style• Data structures• Data/animation congruence• Presentation type• Other themes?

1. The cull

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Keyword in context

2010-2014animated, animation, dynamic, interactive, time lapse, video

Figure 5. Panels from example dynamic spatial history visualization that is both an analytic tool and research outcome.“ ”

Simon Gregory L, 2014, “Vulnerability-in-Production : A Spatial History of Nature, Affluence, and Fire in Oakland, California.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104 (February 2015): 37–41.

Keyword in context

Whitson Risa, 2010, “‘The Reality of Today Has Required Us to Change’: Negotiating Gender Through Informal Work in Contemporary Argentina.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100 (1): 159–181.

Keyword in context

Men tend to enter the informal economy with the potential of earning more than were they to work formally; they participate in dynamic, growth-oriented jobs; and they maintain control over their own labor and resources.

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InteractiveTime lapseVideoAnimation/AnimatedDynamic

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Keywords in coded articles

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Articles

2. Content Analysis• Application domain

• Purpose• Style• Data structures• Data/animation congruence• Presentation type

• Other themes

Keyword in context

An animation by season of the violence (thirty-two map frames for eight years) is available for download from our web site at http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/waroutcomes/maps/allEventsAnimation.avi.

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O’Loughlin, John, and Frank D.W. Witmer. 2011. “The Localized Geographies of Violence in the North Caucasus of Russia, 1999–2007.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101 (1): 178–201.

2. Exploratory Analysis• Application domain

• Purpose• Style• Data structures• Data/animation congruence• Presentation type• Other themes

Machine Learning Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)

Arts Budgets Children EducationNEW MILLION CHILDREN SCHOOLFILM TAX WOMEN STUDENTSSHOW PROGRAM PEOPLE SCHOOLSMUSIC BUDGET CHILD EDUCATIONMOVIE BILLION YEARS TEACHERSPLAY FEDERAL FAMILIES HIGHMUSICAL YEAR WORK PUBLICBEST SPENDING PARENTS TEACHERACTOR NEW SAYS BENNETTFIRST STATE FAMILY MANIGAT

Training data themesGIScience

Earth Systems Space/Time Models

Spatial Change AgentsData Climate Model

AnalysisEnvironmental Models

GIS Land InformationInformation Global MovementResearch Systems MapTime Model TimeVulnerability Growth SpatialGeographic Study MapsComputational Area AgentScience Economic Space

Next steps

Committee:Elizabeth Wentz Chair, ASU GeoPlan

Alan MacEachren Penn State

Ross Maciejewski ASU Computer science

Serge Rey ASU GeoPlan

Student collaborators:Catherine Musili ASU GeoPlan

Morgan Klass ASU GeoPlan

Fred Morstatter ASU Computer Science

Acknowledgements

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