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Ah, you want to Lie with Maps, gotcha. Now you have the link to the book.
There are a lot of people in California since they are the largest populous state, which has around 40 million right now, so it's not surprising that 6 million people voted for the former pres but that large number is still not the majority of the state.
Man muss einfach die Grenzwerte für die Farbübergänge und den Zeitraum geschickt wählen. Gibt sogar Bücher über sowas: https://www.amazon.de/How-Maps-Third-Mark-Monmonier/dp/022643592X/?tag=dsble-21
Und falls es nicht offensichtlich war: das ist ein Spaßpost über Scheinkorrelationen.
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I start students with the Britannica article on GIS.
Once you've read that, create an ESRI ArcGIS Online account if you don’t have one already. Download ArcGIS Pro if you have it available or are willing to purchase it. Download QGIS here. It is free and good to have available. Getting everything downloaded and set up is really the first week of any GIS course.
Once you have the basics downloaded, acquaint yourself with ESRIs free web courses in their coarse catalog here. ESRI has a lot of free web courses and training. I recommend you start with the course "GIS Basics". Then, "ArcGIS Online Basics" as you are already in ArcGIS Online at that point and should probably know something about it. Finally, "Getting Started with GIS." From there, just go through their course catalog and check out various (free) courses that are related to your interests. Completing these three web courses would be one week of homework near the beginning of a semester if I was teaching an introduction to GIS course.
Completing these might help refresh you on the content and will build a portfolio of ESRI certificates. These certificates are not very impressive, as each one is more like the completion of an assignment than a course. (Again, I've often have students turn in 3 certificates as a homework assignment in a week). Most of the stuff in an ESRI tutorial can be done in QGIS if you can't afford ArcGIS Pro, you may just have to use google and youtube to teach yourself the equivalent process.
Buy the book "How to lie with maps." Read it. Keep a copy at your workstation. Buy a second copy to loan to friends so you always have yours. This is the closest thing to a religious text in GIS/Cartography. It won't teach you what button to press in ArcGIS, but it will give you some of the fundamentals.
I have to tell my fellow researchers at the start of every project that I don't know how to do most of what they are asking of me, but that I know how to learn it. GIS is impossible to fully comprehend, as it has to many use cases. You will need to learn the fundamentals, and then how to branch out to each application.
I start students with the Britannica article on GIS.
Once you've read that, create an ESRI ArcGIS Online account if you don’t have one already. Download ArcGIS Pro if you have it available or are willing to purchase it. Download QGIS here. It is free and good to have available. Getting everything downloaded and set up is really the first week of any GIS course.
Once you have the basics downloaded, acquaint yourself with ESRIs free web courses in their coarse catalog here. ESRI has a lot of free web courses and training. I recommend you start with the course "GIS Basics". Then, "ArcGIS Online Basics" as you are already in ArcGIS Online at that point and should probably know something about it. Finally, "Getting Started with GIS." From there, just go through their course catalog and check out various (free) courses that are related to your interests. Completing these three web courses would be one week of homework near the beginning of a semester if I was teaching an introduction to GIS course.
Completing these might help refresh you on the content and will build a portfolio of ESRI certificates. These certificates are not very impressive, as each one is more like the completion of an assignment than a course. (Again, I've often have students turn in 3 certificates as a homework assignment in a week). Most of the stuff in an ESRI tutorial can be done in QGIS if you can't afford ArcGIS Pro, you may just have to use google and youtube to teach yourself the equivalent process.
Buy the book "How to lie with maps." Read it. Keep a copy at your workstation. Buy a second copy to loan to friends so you always have yours. This is the closest thing to a religious text in GIS/Cartography. It won't teach you what button to press in ArcGIS, but it will give you some of the fundamentals.
I have to tell my fellow researchers at the start of every project that I don't know how to do most of what they are asking of me, but that I know how to learn it. GIS is impossible to fully comprehend, as it has to many use cases. You will need to learn the fundamentals, and then how to branch out to each application.
Yikes.
Okay. I really hope you are working with a team, and not the only person there. Cartography is a subset of graphic design no doubt, but GIS is much bigger than cartography, and that is really the last step in any project. I am personally not a fan of bringing in graphic designers for GIS unless they have extensive training in GIS, or if they are going to be the last line of polishing maps in a large shop. Een then, making a map is one thing, making a map that follows cartographic conventions and properly represents data, without being misleading, and while being aesthetically pleasing, is a very tough task to learn on the job. The analysis behind making a map, all the data work, involves significant amounts of statistics.
I start students with the Britannica article on GIS.
Once you've read that, create an ESRI ArcGIS Online account if you don’t have one already. Download ArcGIS Pro if you haven’t already. Download QGIS here. It is free and good to have available. Getting everything downloaded and set up is really the first week of any GIS course.
Once you have the basics downloaded, acquaint yourself with ESRIs free web courses in their coarse catalog here. ESRI has a lot of free web courses and training. I recommend you start with the course "GIS Basics". Then, "ArcGIS Online Basics" as you are already in ArcGIS Online at that point and should probably know something about it. Finally, "Getting Started with GIS." From there, just go through their course catalog and check out various (free) courses that are related to your interests. Completing these three web courses would be one week of homework near the beginning of a semester if I was teaching an introduction to GIS course.
Completing these It might help refresh you on the content and will build a portfolio of ESRI certificates. These certificates are not very impressive, as each one is more like the completion of an assignment than a course. (Again, I've often have students turn in 3 certificates as a homework assignment in a week).
Buy the book "How to lie with maps." Read it. Keep a copy at your workstation. Buy a second copy to loan to friends so you always have yours. This is the closest thing to a religious text in GIS/Cartography. It won't teach you what button to press in ArcGIS, but it will give you some of the fundamentals.
I start students with the Britannica article on GIS.
Once you've read that, create an ESRI ArcGIS Online account. They are free. Download ArcGIS Pro if you have access to it through your organization. If not, you may consider purchasing a license if you are serious. Download QGIS. QGIS is also free.
ESRI has a lot of free web courses and training. I recommend you start with the course "GIS Basics". Then, "ArcGIS Online Basics" as you are already in ArcGIS Online at that point and should probably know something about it. Finally, "Getting Started with GIS." From there, just go through their course catalog here and check out various (free) courses that are related to your job. This would all be one week of homework near the beginning of a semester if I was teaching an introduction to GIS course. It might help refresh you on the content and will build a portfolio of ESRI certificates. These certificates are not very impressive, as each one is more like the completion of an assignment than a course. (I've often have students turn in 3 certificates as a homework assignment in a week).
Buy the book "How to lie with maps." Read it. Keep a copy at your workstation. Buy a second copy to loan to friends so you always have yours. This is the closest thing to a religious text in GIS/Cartography. It won't teach you what button to press in ArcGIS, but it will give you some of the fundamentals.
Ironic thing is that maps rely on stats and can be manipulated to lie as well in the same way.
My college cartography professor used How To Lie With Maps as his textbook. I heartily recommend it.
What part of geography are you most interested in? Physical? Human? GIS/Remote Sensing? Human-Environment interactions?
I'd recommend you start with how to lie with maps by Mark Monmonier as a general introduction to maps in geography. It applies to a wide variety of topics and subject matter. (https://www.amazon.com/How-Maps-Third-Mark-Monmonier/dp/022643592X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=how+to+lie+with+maps&qid=1620356344&sr=8-1)
For youtube, I enjoy Wendover Productions. (https://www.youtube.com/user/Wendoverproductions)
On the science channel I like the show "What on Earth." It is available on Hulu.
If you have a specific topic, I have recommendations for books/youtube channels.
"for simplicity sake" sounds like you've got a pre-decided point you are trying to make, and chose the visualization that supports that.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/022643592X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_VKQ2FbDTW5WGY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
A bit more conceptual rather than technical but still very interesting!
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