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When To *Not* Use Maps

A session at Where 2012

We all love maps, because maps are great. That’s why we’re here, right? But it turns out that sometimes maps aren’t the right answer when it comes to visually presenting data with a spatial component. Noah Iliinsky will discuss why, and how to figure out when to not map your data. And of course some examples will be shown where a better choice is a non-standard map, and some where the best representation doesn’t involve a map at all.

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Noah Iliinsky

Visualization & interaction designer, practical cyclist. Author of vis books: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4419 Visualization Expert @ IBM. My opinions, not theirs. bio from Twitter

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When

Time 10:45am11:00am PST

Date Tue 3rd April 2012

Where

Yerba Buena Salon 9, San Francisco Marriott Marquis

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  • Designing Data Visualizations
  • Beautiful Visualization

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