Link to Slides Data Viz - Lecture 9 - 1 April 2025.pdf
Schematic Maps
Morning
- Reading: The “Vignelli” Map at 50 - New York Transit Museum
- Midsem exam results and discussion
- Schematic Maps
- Types of projections
- xkcd: Map Projections
- [Why all world maps are wrong - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIID5FDi2JQ
- Country Size Comparison
- Rasagy Sharma—Outlier 2022—Scheming Against Accurate Maps - YouTube
Afternoon
- Exercise - Schematic MapsExercise - Schematic Maps
Credits
This exercise is based on Rasagy's Schematic Map exercise. You can watch his Outlier 2022 talk Scheming Against Accurate Maps on Youtube and check out Map School on GitHub.
Step 1 - Where...