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Mapping the New Isolationism: America First?

The recent American election seems to mark the entrance into a new world which antiquates earlier forms of reference, and which global politics seem about to be reconfigured in ways that transcend...

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NORAD Maps the Flight of Santa’s Sleigh

One rarely ties maps as entertaining as the NORAD Santa Map to power–especially when they are accompanied in their online versions are accompanied by cheery Christmas pop.  The apparent frivolity of...

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Mapping Trump

Despite claiming to represent much of the country--and desiring to assert a major electoral victory--how much of the country does Trump know or can he claim to represent? Continue reading →

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Mapping Bannon’s Ban

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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Data Visualization Fake-Out?

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 →

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The Earth of Nvogorod

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...

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Mapping Armageddon?

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...

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Health Care as a Democratic Right?

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...

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