Whatever the political outcome, cartography has been a real winner this election.
For the first time I feel that interactive maps have become as seamless as reading print.
As the last votes are counted, here's my highlights. 1/6 First an honourable mention for Trump Jr's map prediction tweet since it was the first map I saw on election day. Certainly an original idea, poor choice of map projection though.
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John Snow's map of cholera looked as dull as (cholera filled) dishwater compared to his competitors...
His brilliance was a solid data collection & then a simple map presenting what he knew.
Each death marked in black and white.
Here's a lesson for COVID-19 dataviz...
1/11 Of course, cholera remains a global issue killing tens of thousands a year.
Here's an early map showing its spread from India to Britain...we've seen so many recent versions of this with COVID-19.