An explanation of an explanation of an XKCD comic by Randall Munroe

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Here me prattle on about maps and power and data and things. If you dare. (Did I say I’m going a bit stir crazy?) Cover image is a detail of the 1801 map of Kent, the ur-map of the Ordnance Survey.

Colloque annuel de la SEAA 17-18, 15 et 16 janvier 2021, Université Paris-Diderot

Johns Hopkins University of Medicine has emerged as the main data clearing house in the US for data re the Corona virus and covid-19. They have a new dashboard that allows one to look at county-level data.

The Map of Britain in Richard of Westminster’s De situ Britanniæ

Announcing the Publication of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography. (Look just to the right for ordering information.)

Using a choropleth with regions proportional to population works!

But still problematic as mapping absolute values in a choropleth.