Assorted Links
- The next time you have "a new idea no one's thought of before", read this list, be humble and go back to
Google the library.
- This website helps you select a projection for your map (paper here)
- Mapping London’s “pseudo-public spaces,” spaces “that appear to be public but are... controlled by developers.” via Geoff Manaugh
- How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Ocean Floor’s Secrets via Sabrina Lai, who is the creator/admin of a great group about Geographical analysis, urban modeling, spatial statistics on Facebook
- Infographic of the fascinating timeline of the far future via Tyler Cowen
- In a 100 million years from now: “Future archaeologists should be able to identify an ‘Urban Stratum’ of fossilized great coastal cities, mostly through the remains of underground infrastructure such as building foundations and utility tunnels.”.
- 100 greatest images of Saturn from its Cassini Mission
- Heads up for some great opportunities:
- University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track position in spatial data science
- The Ohio State University, Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure track position with expertise in areas such as spatial-temporal data analytics, spatial simulation and modeling, cyberGIS and high performance computing, and/or geovisualization
- University of Texas St Antonio is hiring a tenure track/Associate demographer who works with big data
- Beautiful data visualization of music, by Nicholas Rougeux
This is a data visualization of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. You should read it read clockwise.
Size = note length
Distance from center = pitch
Colors = instruments.
