4 papers
A Needs Assessment for Measuring Geographic - Legislative Associations in the U.S. House of Representatives
Ashu Gupta, Cameron Owens, Benjamin Wilson-Langman +4
Political legislation affects the well-being and livelihoods of constituents. In the U.S. Congress a representative's voting record on bills and legislation is public. These bills…
Exploropleth: exploratory analysis of data binning methods in choropleth maps
Arpit Narechania, Alex Endert, Clio Andris
When creating choropleth maps, mapmakers often bin (i.e., group, classify) quantitative data values into groups to help show that certain areas fall within a similar range of value…
Mapping a Movement: Exploring a Proposed Police Training Facility in Atlanta and the Stop Cop City Movement through Online Maps
Camille Harris, Clio Andris
In 2021, the City of Atlanta and Atlanta Police Foundation launched plans to build a large police training facility in the South River Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County, GA. R…
Cartographers in Cubicles: How Training and Preferences of Mapmakers Interplay with Structures and Norms in Not-for-Profit Organizations
Arpit Narechania, Alex Endert, Clio Andris
Choropleth maps are a common and effective way to visualize geographic thematic data. Although cartographers have established many principles about map design, data binning and col…