A highly Visual exploration of diagrams and Data that helps you understand how maps are part of everyday thinking, how they Tell stories, and how they can reframe your point of view, from Stanford University\'s world-renowned d.school.
You\'ll also learn how to view the many maps that swirl around our daily lives with a critical eye, aware of the forces that are in play for every creator..
You\'ll learn how to gather data, organize it, and present it to an audience.
Colorful illustrations bring the story to life and demonstrate how the fictional character\'s collection of data, properly organized and mapped, leads her to solve the mystery of her friend\'s disappearance.
An embedded mystery story about a woman who investigates the disappearance of an old high school friend illustrates how to use different maps to make sense of all types of information.
Even Stories can be mapped! The Secret Language of Maps provides a simple framework to deconstruct existing maps and then shows you how to create your own.
Maps are ways of organizing information and figuring out what\'s important.
Any figure that sorts Data visually and presents it spatially is a map.
This book is the ultimate legend to mapping all kinds of data.--Jessica Hagy, Webby Award-winning blogger of Indexed and author of How to Be Interesting (In Ten Simple Steps) Maps aren\'t just geographic, they are also infographic and include all types of frameworks and diagrams.
A highly Visual exploration of diagrams and Data that helps you understand how maps are part of everyday thinking, how they Tell stories, and how they can reframe your point of view, from Stanford University\'s world-renowned d.school
