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Get READY for the #MapFailbruaryChallenge 🏆🌟
Create the WORST maps in the world 🗺️🤢 (starting on February 1st)

with @jeremy @pokateo

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#mapfail #cartography #gischat #gistribe

Another one of my #projects from a couple of years ago: creating interactive geospatial PDFs.

I did a talk about it at FOSS4G that year, which you can watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhi1bsbCWYU - but basically it involved programmatically creating PDF maps that can have layers turned on/off, be loaded back into GIS software, and even have buttons and animated tracks! Using @gdal and @qgis

#gis #geography #foss4g #maps #pdf #shipping

We recently discussed "Ethics in Data Visualization" in my class. Here are a few excellent resources that I used:

1. Correll, Michael. "Ethical dimensions of visualization research." CHI 2019.

2. Cairo, Alberto al 2014. “Ethical infographics In data visualization, journalism meets engineering.”

3. Ten Considerations Before You Create Another Chart About COVID-19 by Amanda Makulec.

4. Cairo, Alberto. How charts lie: Getting smarter about visual information. WW Norton & Company, 2019.

If you download your #Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a #Python script to convert a Twitter archive to #markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

Y’all, if you’re getting frustrated you’re not seeing the content you want to like news or intel you need on Mastodon, you really need to shift your thinking from algorithmic social media. Follower counts don’t matter much here. Likes do not matter to post reach. Without your interaction, you will just see a live FIFO firehose. Some quick fixes:

Hashtag your posts liberally and consistently, and follow key hashtags of interest to you. Hashtags matter a ton here to being seen.

Follow and also alert on accounts you always want to see content from.

Consider using the built in RSS feature for your feeds and for specific hashtags.

Consider switching to the more advanced UI in your preferences, so you can watch multiple filtered and unfiltered feeds. Or a different mobile app.

Use Fedifinder to follow all the accounts you followed on Twitter, and sync up your follow and block lists.

Avail yourself of the multiple public lists of hundreds of journalist accounts on Mastodon.

#mastodontips