Although I do not know the proper methodology for social
network analysis, I think that using a map to display the results would be
really interesting.  In thinking about my
own work on adolescent's use of social networking websites, I could see a few
areas in which producing a map would help visualize my data.  For example, I am interested in the strength
of ties among peers in a particular social network both online and
offline.  I could create and compare two
maps of school hallways.  The map would function

This design is a study of human encroachment due to population growth on wild life habitat and danger to wildlife. More specifically, it looks at the interaction of human population concentration; wild life population; wild life habitat such as forests, lakes and grasslands; and agricultural and industrial production in the world. The design will include four chloroplethic map layers of the world, representing each of the four aspects mentioned before, for comparison with each other. The chloroplethic gradation will represent areas of higher concentration.

From last week's example of tracing word salience in email correspondence as a means of re-experiencing one's memory, I think it might be interesting to create a map according to places that one has been to in one's lifetime. According to Monmonier, a map must distort reality, offer a selective, incomplete view of reality, and the desired way of making a map depends on the purpose of the map. For example, the properties of conformality and equivalence of map projection are mutually exclusive, so it is necessarily a trade-off when choosing one way.

Building from Hine's discussion of 'mapping the spaces of computer-mediated communication', it would be interesting to build an interactive visualization of a library's catalog. What I'm thinking of is certainly being developed in a variety of ways, such as EBSCO's visual search or products like Aquabrowser (See: http://www.aquabrowser.com/ and demo here: http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/). The basic idea is to build an interactive search and retrieval tool that is also a visualization of the the collection.

VOA funding project: Data Variable Density

The lesson in my previously posted population-sensitive election map brings many variables into the computation and expresses this data complexity well. Though the map loses much automatic readability when the outline of the continental U.S. transforms, the design corrects a routine misrepresentation.

Maps distort to communicate. They highlight certain information while compromising other aspects of the "actual." Maps exemplify the epistemological justification of deception. But, generally, lies are the helping verbs in the grammar of knowledge.

Strange maps has a couple of election return maps. The map I offer is a cartogram that corrects such mappings and brings out the complexity overlooked by simple red-blue state etc. It offers another truth about the same data. It also falsifies to get at the new truth.

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I'm not entirely sure how I'd go about this and the idea isn't well-formed, but I'm inspired by my previous work experience to explore this idea. When I was working in industry, my office here in the Midwest worked closely with the office in the bay area.

With the recent passing of the California ban on gay marriage in spite of previous practices granting them, I have been curious as to how laws regulating human sexuality relate specifically to the formation of communities of sexual minorities.  With such powerful events in U. S.

I think the use of toy helicopters in scientific research qualifies as an unorthodox method, no?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7723703.stm

Just for this blog post I will post an entry related to a research
problem that I am not working on for this class, though it is equally
important.  Maps can be very useful for displaying lots of information
quickly, or can be used as a rhetorical act (announcing some piece of
information).  A major problem affecting the United States is the
decline in the number of paid journalists working for newspapers. 
Though there have always been problems with journalism, there has been
a steady decline in the number of paid journalists over the past few