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Paralysis of Choice: Why Map Portals Don’t Work, Part II

“Why Map Portals Don’t Work” is a five-part exploration of why the dominant visual grammar of GIS interfaces serves its public audience so poorly and continues to diverge from the best practices found most everywhere else on the web. Read Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part V.  On February 27th, I will be joining […]

Why Map Portals Don’t Work – Part I

“Why Map Portals Don’t Work” is a five-part exploration of why the dominant visual grammar of GIS interfaces serves its public audience so poorly and continues to diverge from the best practices found most everywhere else on the web. Read Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.  On February 27th, I will be joining […]

Nate Silver Does Spatial Analysis and So Should You

Who’s up for another Nate Silver post? You know, the guy who single-handedly save America from the pox of Triumphalist Innumeracy. As both a post-Election victory lap as well as promotion tour for his new book The Signal and the Noise, Silver gave a number of interviews that I enjoyed including the one below at […]