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Data visualization: Science on the map : Nature News & Comment
▻http://www.nature.com/news/data-visualization-science-on-the-map-1.17024
When linguist Lauren Gawne roams the valleys of Nepal documenting endangered Tibetan languages, she takes pains to distinguish each dialect’s geographical origin. But when it came to producing maps of her results, for many years her cartographic methods were somewhat crude.
“My old maps were [made] using MS Paint on top of some copyrighted map that I really shouldn’t have been using,” she says. Her next solution wasn’t much better: “My mum tracing a map off an atlas so that I had something a bit cleaner to work with.” The one after that — “using Google Earth and dropping pins on it” — was generic, ugly and “looks horrible in a PowerPoint”.
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