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...
View ArticleNORAD 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...
View ArticleMapping 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 →
View ArticleMapping 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...
View ArticleOn–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...
View ArticleTrump 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...
View ArticleData 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 →
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMapping 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...
View ArticleHealth 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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