Reddit reviews How to Lie with Maps (2nd Edition)
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University of Chicago Press
https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226534219
Something every GIS professional should read, and this is a shining example of techniques used, like the ramp used on the CDC data.
This book is pretty good too and touches on data manipulation using maps.
TRIGGER WARNING: CANADIAN AMAZON
My moment was after reading How to lie with maps https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226534219
How to lie with maps, great book
https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226534219 actually after reading this book, I'm more aware of how to visualize data more objectively
That map is a prime example of "How to lie with maps".
Recommended reading: "How to lie with maps" by Mark Monmonier.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226534219
It's a great read... I think a lot of people look at maps and don't consider the cartographer (and his/her training, biases, etc.). If you guys like this article, you'll enjoy this book.
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan for general science.
Stuff by James Randi, Michael Shermer for general stuff about new age crap.
The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin and Deadly Choices by Paul Offit on the Anti-Vaccination movement.
Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best and How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff (Also see How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monomonier for a similar subject) for questioning stats and graphics used in the news.
Is there anything specifically you're interested in?
there are other ways too http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-2nd-Edition/dp/0226534219
(No this doesn't involve sleeping with maps)
The continents are all connected right now. Every map you see is a lie.
Maps are all lies.
Hot to lie with maps.
Ich finde übrigens Goode homolosine projection recht spannend.
You've already had some good suggestions, which I'd suggest following. I have a BA in geography and even after school found these interesting reads.
Cultural and Historical Geography
Eratosthenes' "Geography"
The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Race And Culture: A World View
Technical, GIS, Cartography
How to Lie with Maps
Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers
An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems
I know most of these won't be of much use with a BS degree, but gives you a good foundation for thinking geographically. For the more science aspects; a good understanding of physics, chemistry, and to a lesser extent biology, will really give you a leg up when starting out.
Some books I can recommend for map nerds: Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities, How to Lie With Maps, and a related book that's a bit more useful for data visualization - Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics.
The typographic maps from Axis Maps are pretty awesome and there's all kinds of map-related stuff on Etsy.
I studied it in college. My school had a whole Geography Department.
I didn't go to school for it originally, I found my way there via agriculture and forestry (both use a lot of geographic information systems (GIS)), but since then have done a lot with it.
If you want to learn the basics of geography, I can recommend this book, I view it as the authority on cartography.
Cartography is a science all its own, it's the marriage of design and geography. The mission is to convey information to the reader. It really is a mix of art and science. If you are interested in cartography, you GOTTA read this book.
Any real cartography nerd is also a design nerd, and if they're anything like me, could teach a college course on, say, how typefaces affect a reader's mood. Most great cartographers are also students of graphic design, because, that's a big part of the job. Designers want things to either A) accomplish something specific or B) just plain look beautiful. These are the same charges of the cartographer. I'd love to go on and on about good carto vs. bad; but it would take a decade.
If you want to get into GIS, the software most people use to make maps, and the software I use now as a goespatial analytics pro to do a whole lot more than making maps, I'd recommend using this amazing free online textbook and starting out with a program called Quantum GIS, commonly referred to as QGIS. QGIS runs on PC, Mac, and Linux, it's open source and free, plus that course / textbook is customized for it, and it's highly extensible and flexible.
The industry standard is a program called ArcGIS, which can be had for as little as $100 / year for home use.
If you have any follow up questions, I'm super glad to hear them and answer. Geography is a passion of mine.
One bit of advice: I recommend learning the fundamentals of geography with a beginner's mind - don't approach it like you already learned all you need to know about it in kindergarten. It's a science just like anything else, with a lot of the iceberg below the surface of the water. It also coincidentally shares a name with what most people call memorizing state capitals. Approach it like it's called neural hyperbiomechanics or something; meaning, something you don't think you learned when you were 6.
How to lie with maps on reddit once more
https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226534219
I'll just leave this here http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226534219
How to Lie with Maps.
How to lie with maps
Bernie going down the Trump way of using a map with more of his color to show that he's winning.
Pretty despicable, but I don't expect less of that gutter rat Sirota and more importantly Bronard himself.
Old man Socialist gonna fuck us all again.