This repo contains a PDF version of the slides for my 2017 OpenVisConf talk, How Spatial Polygons Shape Our World.
- Prop 1 election results
- All maps of parameter estimates are misleading
- Avoiding Data Pitfalls, Part 2: Fooled by Small Samples (Kidney cancer rates by county)
- Surprise! Bayesian Weighting for De-Biasing Thematic Maps
- 2008 Presidental election map
- 2004 Presidental election cartogram
- Square and hexagon cartograms
- Whose map is better? Quality metrics for grid map layouts
- Evaluating cartogram effectiveness
- RStudio data wrangling cheatsheet
- Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
- Histogram essay
- Gerrymandering
- Last Week Tonight on gerrymandering
- "The best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see"
- Redistricting game
- Disser
- Dotting the dot map, revisted Jon Kimerling
- Spatial aggregation explorer
- Redraw the states
- How zip codes almost masked the lead problem in Flint
- Pierre Goovaerts, whose talk on geostatistics in practice at UCLA in 2014 started me thinking about the change of support problem.
- Friedrich Hartmann, who introduced me to dasymetric mapping and the MAUP at IEEEVis in 2014.
- Moon Duchin, one of the mathematicians solving gerrymandering.
- Richard Casey Sadler, who works on public health problems in Michigan.