Maps, Lies and Storytelling | P08 | Some storytelling

Maps, Lies & Storytelling Class 4

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Review of last week

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Maps, Lies & Storytelling Section 8 - Storytelling

Every map has a relationship with storytelling

At the very least in the editorial

Even the discovery map

http://bit.ly/1oJ7CkD

Not much plot, but a lot of backstory

http://bit.ly/1oJ7CkD http://bbc.in/1rcBAgo

“Maps are errors to arrive at truth.” - http://amzn.to/1BFFLYl

The promotional map

The promotional map doesn’t typically tell an explicit story. Instead
the stories are implicit in the places they illustrate

http://bit.ly/ZeHojA

Full of detail, settings, and potentially characters

http://bit.ly/1xaVtdt

The personal map

Telling each author’s micro-story and the overarching story about different
perceptions of place

Possibly an obvious character

Often complex plots and varying detail

http://bit.ly/Z27822

http://bit.ly/ZaqMZY

http://amzn.to/1rWB3po

http://bit.ly/ZaqMZY

http://amzn.to/1rWB3po

http://bit.ly/1s0Yw7N

Related to maps from imagination

Where world is almost a character itself

Add an element of logic to an imaginary world

http://bit.ly/1xj9Kog

http://amzn.to/1s69id3

http://bit.ly/1nb9Uxz

Jonathan Roberts @Fantasticmaps www.fantasticmaps.com/ Today

The human map

Editorial gymnastics to highlight small, discrete concepts to make a
point

Somehow we or they are always the character

http://bit.ly/1pl02wx

http://wapo.st/Z2bUwv

Sometimes the point is immediately obvious in data with a
minimal number of dimensions

http://bit.ly/1xPWFGa

And are more often practically impossible to decode alone (failed
stories)

Or can be passively dishonest to provoke conversation

If done well, they can be beautiful at the same
time they are insightful

http://bit.ly/1oI9VUZ

Even an airplane map…

Air travel is a strange sub-genre of its own

http://bit.ly/1pBnXIg

http://bloom.bg/1pZCOeV

http://bit.ly/1uOCiYJ

http://bit.ly/1rPW4Q6

The temporal map

“Time is a very powerful dimension to enrich our maps.”
- http://bit.ly/1rWLbOY

http://bit.ly/rambouno

http://bit.ly/1BHwqzj

http://bit.ly/1nWf01k

http://bit.ly/1rLLQjA

Even the narrative map

Often resemble to an interactive discovery map

c4a.me/1dYHKv9/ PLUTO is Free!

But typically accompany a larger narrative

http://thebea.st/1uSNrYH

http://bit.ly/1aDGM5g

Where the story becomes the explicit goal of the map

So they often combine all the elements of a good
story

http://bit.ly/1s31rwt

setting, character, plot, backstory, detail

http://nyti.ms/1s0RK2W

Maps, Lies & Storytelling Section 8 - Storytelling tools

http://nydn.us/1q68zms

http://bit.ly/1EmhyKZ

Quite a few options

http://bit.ly/Zrm0rg

http://bit.ly/1tt5r6b

http://bit.ly/1t0ksC3

http://bit.ly/1uSWJ6U

Odyssey.js http://bit.ly/odysseyjs

Maps, Lies & Storytelling Guest speaker

Jonathan Roberts @Fantasticmaps www.fantasticmaps.com/ Today

Maps, Lies & Storytelling Assignments

Tell a story using a map and only two colors.
1 color for the background color and 1 color for the data. That’s it, no more colors. Assignment 1

Let’s take Assignment 3 from last week further! Use the
map interface, cartodb.js, our interactive template from class or any tools you need to tell a complete story with your maps. ! Be prepared to present it for 5 min Assignment 2

These are due by Wednesday next week!

2 more good sources of data http://bit.ly/1vJX2Oi http://bit.ly/1s7qxM4

See you in two weeks!

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