1. EXPLORING GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION TRENDS IN GEOGRAPHY
READY FIGURE ONE!
EXPLORING GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION TRENDS IN GEOGRAPHY
Thomas J. Pingel
Department of Geography
Northern Illinois University
Invited lecture - March 30, 2016

2. Three questions
What are the current practices for graphic communication in geography?
How have these practices changed?
How are maps being used as tools of rhetoric in professional discourse?

3. To assess current practices and trends,
I compared Figure 1 from most recent issue of Annals of the Association of American Geographers with first two issues of AAAG in 1996.

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13. What happened, and why?
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14. As academic use of maps has declined,
media use of maps has increased and become more sophisticated, especially within the context of data journalism.

15. http://www. nytimes. com/elections/2016/national-results-map. WT

16. Making good scientific visuals
Have a story to tell
Craft your figures carefully!
Keep it simple
Know your data and statistics
Whenever possible, let your reader see the data with as little interference as you can
Show others your work and get feedback
Making good visuals is a lot like writing well; it takes practice and years of training to get good at it

17. Is “chart-junk” beneficial?

26. A few of my favorite geovisual analysis sites