Interviewing the Map

We will be at SRCCON 2015! http://srccon.org/sessions/proposals/#proposal-116371

Concepts

1. Overlay
2. Correlation
3. Aggregation
4. Network

Examples

• Toxic spills in Brooklyn original | other possibilities
• Sex offender proximities to playgrounds and schools (Orange County Register)
• Evaluating traffic laws effectiveness in New York

Tools to interview maps

• Python
• QGIS
• MMQGIS plugin: particularly handy for quickly creating buffers with radii in metric or English units

Optional Best for spatial joins on large datasets, or if you're more comfortable with Python and SQL

• PostgreSQL
• PostGIS

It's a narrative! But how do you go one step further?

• turf.js: does a lot of what QGIS can do, but in JavaScript
• cartodb.js: great for filtering

Workflow

Facilitators

• @geraldarthur. interactive graphics producer, Vocativ
• @jueyang. CUNY Grad School of Journalism