TY - GEN AU - Field, Kenneth TI - Thematic mapping : 101 inspiring ways to visualise empirical data SN - 9781589485570 U1 - 526 PY - 2022/// CY - California PB - ESRI Press KW - Geospatial data KW - Thematic maps KW - Cartography N1 - Contents Foreword: Wandering multiplicity. xi Preface: I'm not writing another book; I'm done xii Prologue: Speaking to different truths xiv Chapter 1: Preparation 1 From geography to map: Selecting a projection that works 2 Building your map: Laying strong foundations The lines are drawn Boundaries always shape the map 4 Colouring the map: Designing colour schemes with purpose 8 Reference information: Adding detail that helps people interpret the map 10 Static or dynamic: Going beyond the printed page 12 Chapter 2: Area maps 15 Red and blue states: The bottom-line result as unique values Red and blue counties: Unique values at a finer level of detail Shades of truth: Share of the vote as a choropleth 20 Seeing things differently: Processing and classifying the data 22 Side by side: Two choropleths to tell two sides of the story 24 Two maps in one: Choropleth with a diverging colour scheme 26 Red and blue makes purple: Choropleth with a blended-hue colour scheme 28 De-emphasising land mass: Value-by-alpha choropleth 30 Using visual effects for emphasis: Choropleth with hill shading 32 Emphasising place, not space: Dissymmetric reallocation to new areas 34 Flipped counties: Selective choropleth of key places 36 Continuously varying results: Interpolated surfaces 38 Looking for relationships: Bivariate choropleth of two variables 40 All the colours: Fusing three variables into a triradiate choropleth 42 Don't lose your stripes: Vertical bar fills 44 What is a vote worth?: Electoral College votes per capita choropleth One map is not enough: Small multiples over time A landslide for apathy: Non-voters as unique Chapter 3: Point maps 53 Size matters: Geometric shapes graduated in size 54 The winner's circle: Proportional symbols emphasise the data range 56 Squaring the circle: Proportional symbol map using squares 58 Painting the town red: Proportional symbol map using abstract symbols 60 Donkeys and elephants: Logos as proportional symbols 62 Hemispheres: Multivariate proportional symbols 64 Purple haze: Mixing red and blue dots 66 One dot per vote: Maximum detail with dasymetric dot density 68 Putting people on the map: Minimum detail with isotype symbology 70 Making the point: A hybrid proportional symbol dot density approach 72 When is an area a point? Combining a choropleth with coloured dots 74 Crop circles Equal area binned, gridded symbols 76 Map box of doughnuts: Equal area binned, gridded symbols with a hole 78 Bipartisan patterns: Purple gridded squares 80 Let the data speak for itself: Proportionally sized labels as literal symbols 82 A map stack: Stacking one map on top of another 84 Chapter 4: Line maps 87 Data as a fluid surface: Humble contour88 Colouring between the lines: Isopleth (filled contours) 90 Throwing shade: Illuminated contours 92 Over the garden fence: Alpha-blended boundary lines 94 Gauging the situation: Directional symbology 96 Winds of change: Trends over time using directional arrows 98 Path to victory: Flow map from candidacy to the finish line 100 Road to nowhere: Strip map for a political trip across America 102 Stars and stripes: Exposing cross-sections across the map 104 Chapter 5: Cartograms 107 Exploding the map: Non-contiguous cartogram 108 Out of shape: Population density-equalising cartogram 110 Tessellated geographies: Gridded cartogram by hexagon 112 The honeycomb: Non-contiguous gridded cartogram 114 Round like a circle: Dorling cartogram 116 It's hip to be square: Demers cartogram 118 The ballot box: Pseudo-3D hexagonal mosaic cartogram 120 Two colour counters: Compromise cartogram 122 Every vote's on the map: Darling cartogram with embedded charts 124 Chapter 6: Graphs, charts, and plots 127 Let the numbers tell the story- Tabulation 128 128 Off the charts Sometimes, the best map is no map 130 130 Repeatable pictures: Isotype-styled unit chart 132 The river: Line graph as a path to victory 134 Creating order from chaos Tree map 136 Creating a new order: Spatially ordered tree map 138 Make some noise: Violin and beeswarm plots 140 Start the party infographics 142 Trump's tower: Building an Electoral College histogram 144 Plotting the x, y, and z: Space-time cubes 146 Chapter 7: Chart maps 149 Counting votes: Waffle grid on a geographical base 150 Double dessert: Pie charts on a waffle grid 152 Square pegs in square holes: Unique values waffle grid 154 Pulse: Small multiples line graphs 156 No. l at the end of the bar: small multiples stacked bar charts 158 Ebb and flow: small multiples Sankey diagrams 160 Ticking away the moments: small multiples radar charts 162 American pie: small multiples polar area charts 164 Just for the record: small multiples tree-ring charts 166 Common people: Trump and Clinton as Chernoff faces 168 Faces of America: Chernoff face Dorling cartogram 170 Just the basic facts: Minimalist sparklines 172 Dialing it in: Dials as a Dorling cartogram 174 Chapter 8: 3D maps 177 Round and round: Extruded prisms on a digital globe 178 Reach for the sky: Extruded prisms on a flat surface 180 Proper perspective: Extruded prisms in an axonometric view 182 Peaks and valleys: Extruded filled contours 184 View from the hill: 3D block diagram with a draped surface 186 Us and them: Triangulated irregular networks 188 Fake 3D: Chroma stereoscopic colour encoding 190 From the ground up: Illuminated 3D columns 192 Raising the stakes: Stacked chips 194 Power to the people: Dasymetrically distributed 3D people 196 Q*Map: Extruded waffle grid 198 Electoral causeway: Stratified areal space-time cube 200 Can't see the forest for the trees: Data spikes 202 It's a sign! 3D gridded chart map 204 Chapter 9: Curiosities 207 Winner takes all: Single fill for the win 208 A textured finish: Pattern fills 210 Islands in a storm: Imagined landscape 212 Pop art carte: Halftone symbology 214 Mountains and molehills: Multivariate symbol landscape 216 Politics will tear us apart: Joy plot 218 Old skool pen plot Horizontal proportional lines 220 Ishihara election test: Dot density Dorling cartogram 222 Presidential puzzle: Abstract tessellated cartogram 224 Go ahead, make my day: Steampunk'd gridded cartogram 226 The force is strong in this one: Value-by-alpha dasymetrically equalised repetition 228 A picture is worth 2,638 counties: Modified pictorial map Epilogue: The making of a viral map 233 Prior carte: Old is new again 245 Credits 273 ER -