Mapping Skillshare with Codrina
Why maps are useful visualization tools? What doesn’t work with maps? Today we hosted a School of Data skillshare with Codrina Ilie, School of data Fellow.
Codrina Ilie shares perspectives on building a map project
What makes a good map? How can perspective, assumptions and even colour change the quality of the map? This is a one-hour video skillshare to learn all about map making from our School of Data fellow:
Learn some basic mapping skills with slides
Codrina prepared these slides with some extensive notes and resources. We hope that it helps you on your map journey.
Resources:
- BBC series – Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession –
- The ColourBrewer is a tool to design maps
- OSGeo Live
- Book: How Maps Lie
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
(Note: the hand drawn map was created at School of Data Summer Camp. Photo by Heather Leson CCBY)