Mapping Bannon’s Ban

February 2, 2017, 2:26 pm

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While the Friday-night unilateral decree that emerged from the narrow core members of Trump’s White House–Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, the President, Vice President, and perhaps a few others–is nothing less than an opening salvo on the redefinition of our national frontiers. … Continue reading →

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On–and Off–the Roads: Maps for Self-Driving Cars?

March 28, 2017, 11:00 am

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As much as offer navigational tools, maps for self-driving cars suggest the future of automobilistic experiences, and the promise of speed that underlay much of the twentieth century, and which the self-driving car guarantee. Continue reading →

Trump Warps the World’s Map: Paris and Pittsburgh; Creditors and Debtors

June 5, 2017, 8:45 am

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Donald Trump took advantage of his having Presidential podium to diss the Paris Accords by a torrent of alliteration as resting on a “cornucopia of dystopian, dishonest and discredited data.”  In dismissing and indeed disdaining the historical accords to limit carbon … Continue reading →

Data Visualization Fake-Out?

July 23, 2017, 12:44 am

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Despite the need to visualize the scale, rapid spread and global reach of recent malware attacks, might they help better orient us o detect the nature of such attacks? Continue reading →

The Earth of Nvogorod

July 27, 2017, 8:53 am

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o“Nvgorod [is] the village where my grandparents were from in Belarus,” clarified Jared Kushner in the eight page of his 11-page testimony to the United States Senate, seeming to intend to reference Novgorod, but not following the best lesson in … Continue reading →

Mapping Armageddon?

August 17, 2017, 11:43 am

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General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces in World War II, described a war of aerial attacks visualized as a victorious war. Has the same map haunted our notions of what the missile strikes of an intercontinental war would look like in distorting ways? Continue reading →

Health Care as a Democratic Right?

August 23, 2017, 1:16 pm

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Seeing health care as a right has become a deep divide in the nation.  But the recent success of mapping the actual resurgence of insurers' involvement in many exchanges in counties nationwide invites us to reconsider--the misleading nature of the mapping of their impending collapse, and ask new questions about the basis for uneven health care access in the United States. Continue reading →