What’s Left to Say About Maps?

Tackling the sticky questions about best practices, breaking the “rules” of cartography, and more

While many of us are working from home, self-isolating, or social distancing, the Data Visualization Society planned a series of online conversational sessions, or Fireside Chats, with professionals from our community on topics that are interesting and important for the data viz community. Each session features a panel of people answering questions from participants in a Zoom webinar format and will be posted to Nightingale over the coming days.

Our third Fireside Chat is all about maps. We tackle the sticky questions about best practices, when to break the “rules” of cartography, and let our panelists debate the merits of proportional symbols compared to choropleths. Not sure what those words mean? That’s fine; if you’ve been consuming maps in the news lately, we promise this session will be just as fun and exciting for you. After an initial discussion among the panel, we opened the floor for questions from viewers.

Panelists include:

Kenneth Field—Principal cartographic product engineer at ESRI
Madison Draper—Designer at Mapbox
Elijah Meeks—Chief…