Determining current uses of cartographic animation in academic geography through a journal content analysis @JoannaMerson
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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