MapLab: (Almost) 101 Ways To Map A Dataset
Escher-inspired cartogram of the 2016 election results. Electoral districts are represented as human-shaped tiles of either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, depending on who won the district.
Courtesy of Kenneth Field, Esri, from “Thematic Mapping”
What happens when you map one dataset dozens of different ways? That’s the exercise in Kenneth Field’s new book, Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data, in which every map uses the same baseline dataset: the 2016 U.S. presidential election results.
The book encourages readers to question the decisions cartographers make when creating maps, and to interrogate the different “shades of truth” that can be hidden in plain sight behind a pretty and colorful map.