Data Visualization
This video immediately reminded me of conversations I had had with a friend of mine. He was explaining his field of study in college. First off, he begins by saying that he is a cartographer. I.e., he studies and draws maps. This conversation occurred within a group of peers. One friend made the comment, "Well, isn't everything already mapped out?", another chimed in, "Yeah, so what would you really do in the workplace?". He laughed and explained that he got this reaction frequently. And that no, it's not really as simple as it seems and it's not an individual, isolated profession. He told of us an internship he had working for the city of Baltimore. His position included mapping out neighborhoods including concentrations of crime areas, vacant housing, and schools. This allowed the city office to identify where community centers were needed to hopefully decrease the rate of children and adolescents entering into crime. This is a primary example of data ...