we have a meeting of mechanics and we see who can Huck a melon further and breckenridge beat us last year well I cartographer in Italy I guarantee it wasn't saying I'm gonna draw this thing in but cuz by 2007 I'm sure co2 will have
And this was something of a surprise because my secret, particularly at this point, was that I wasn't a full-time professional artist or cartographer. I was actually a theoretical physicist. So it's a little surprising to get an email like this landing in your inbox.
In fact, we say this in introduction to the book. But we're not cartographers. There are people who could have a podcast where they could just riff about maps without having to sit down and do research
They are, on one level, objective facts. a step away from cartography?
They are, on one level, objective facts. that were very cartographical.
And all of the maps you'll see in this talk and the ones which are figures in the book are maps I've written myself by writing some cartographic software to show different features of the planet, and then layer human things or other geographical things on top of them. So you'll be seeing lots of full color, high resolution maps, which I totally nerded out about.
Part of it was covered, but then there was a large part which was unknown. And these cartographers would draw these kind of sea monsters in it, right, because our imagination fills that empty space. But the role of basic science is to explore this.
Helen Glover had only been rowing for four years when she won this gold medal. He's a cartographer. He teaches at Harvard.
That's the only three things. And it gives you cartography of your emotional universe--your emotional journey through the week or the month.
They are, on one level, objective facts. Isn't this interesting-- the cartographer who made it.
They are, on one level, objective facts. It's not really a cartography thing, show.
When we started, we didn't think there was any relevance to that, to our modern day. Spending hours and hours talking with the cartographers, designing the maps himself.
And Mackenzie goes and sits down and doesn't touch anything, and they start a conversation. It's just that American cartographers used to make all the maps, so they always made America look the biggest.
So we threw back and forth a bunch of layout sketches. This is my first ever cartographic boob job.
And that was a trip that was specific to map the west coast of South America. So it was a strict exploration mission to bring back cartography, map out the west coast. But Darwin noticed sea shells at altitude when he was ashore and then noticed a lot of the other natural stuff.
we have a meeting of mechanics and we see who can Huck a melon further and breckenridge beat us last year well I 1600s there's something about this map that no Italian cartographer and 1600
And it just sort of popped out of some research I was doing on another chapter. There was something that briefly mentioned that Columbus's brother was a cartographer who had made these world maps that massively distorted the known shape of the world in two places, in particular, the African Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope, and over in East Asia, as well.
is in Kentucky, which is the most exciting two minutes in sports. So the calculations by Michael Zeller, our cartographer and geographer, indicate that about 12 million Americans live within the path of the total solar eclipse, which is about 4% of the country.
No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans. Well, the theories about the foremost cartographer of the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained at green island at the top of the world.
and in 1977, the World Ocean Floor panorama was published. Twenty years later, Tharp was named one of the four greatest cartographers of the 20th century by the Library of Congress. In 1999, Tharp said that, at the start, “I had a blank canvas to fill with extraordinary possibilities.” And she did just that.
So by working with men and women, we're mapping different landscapes and putting them together in the map. And this is Rudo Kemper, another one of our cartographers, working with the elder of the Matawai tribe to document their knowledge of the landscape. And we were actually able to find the first campsite established by the first Maroon when he escaped from slavery.
When we started, we didn't think there was any relevance to that, to our modern day. And when we both were convinced this is what it is, he went to his freelance cartographers, who then produced these beautiful maps.
Network diagrams are a classic case-- social networks, things like that. So we're very much in the business of taking good design principles, good cartographic principles, and transforming them into compelling and interesting data visualizations. They look quite traditional in many ways.
So I'm sure many of you have seen this really excellent weather visualization called "earth.nullschool." It was one of the first visualizations, as a cartographer, that really made the cartographic community sit up and think, actually, computer scientists know what they are doing sometimes when it comes to data visualization.
There's a line in the book where I said my college transcript was like a map to nowhere drawn by a blind cartographer.
Now, if somebody is looking at it from a geologic standpoint or from cartography, Houston, we have a problem.
job and I was an English major at UCLA. I'm not a cartographer and I have no scientific background. I really didn't know anything, so I literally started going drawer by drawer
Going back 300 years, it had been crucial to navigators who explored Spain's huge empire and to the cartographers who tried to map it.
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. I couldn't have produced this book without James's ability to process huge data sets and his GIS expertise and his just general knowledge of cartography and computer
But they are, objectively speaking, having now looked at the whole survey of global cartography, they're the best maps you will ever
There is no way you can create a theory that explains this basic, random behavior at the fundamental quantum level, which is great for cartography, right?
But before we do that, I'm going to ask Brian, our ace cartographer-- who I hope all of you will meet, especially the engineers-- who
All right. Yeah, and it was, shipped off the data set and then had to spend a lot of time negotiating with our cartographer.
She's been hailed by Abraham Verghese as a gifted storyteller, and by "People" magazine as a skilled cartographer of the heart, and I
I hope that what I'm doing is a little bit more practical than 18th century agrarian business theory, or cartography. But you know, then again, I do philosophy
across this story. And then I'd be reading something about interface design, or cartography, because there's a map at the center and I would stumble across this story, or I would