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Yale 2013 Workshop

Free workshop given in New Haven in December 2013

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December 10, 2013

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Transcript

  1. @ANDREWXHILL INTRODUCTION TO CARTODB

  2. BACKGROUND

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  9. MAYBE AN OPEN SOURCE TOOL THAT MAKES MAPS EASY AND

    BEAUTIFUL WOULD BE USEFUL… COMMON NEED?

  10. 2.5 YEARS AGO

  11. None
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  13. WITHOUT THE TOP IN SIGHT THE RELEVANCE OF MAPS IS

    AT AN ALL TIME HIGH
  14. None

  15. FAST FORWARD 5 YEARS

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  22. AN IMPORTANT GOAL FOR ANY MAP MAKER LET’S THINK ABOUT

    STORYTELLING
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  24. you most ! people

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  26. http://bit.ly/1cZSry2

  27. NO BIAS HERE :) MAPS ARE A POWERFUL STORYTELLING TOOL

  28. MAP LITERACY

  29. MAP LITERACY

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  32. A LOT WRITTEN ON OBJECTIVES

  33. None

  34. CONSIDERING ALL THAT FOUR TYPES OF MAPS TO USE TO

    TELL A STORY

  35. THE DATA OR THE DESIGN IS THE WHOLE STORY TYPE

    1: DATA SHOWCASE

  36. http://aitor.is/iceland-contour/

  37. None
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  41. HIGHLIGHT SOMETHING ABOUT THE VIEWERS WORLD TYPE 2: YOUR WORLD

  42. None
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  44. HOW ABOUT MORE EXCITING ONES?

  45. OPENSTREETMAP

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  50. http://nychenge.com/

  51. http://nychenge.com/

  52. http://bit.ly/1dT2wSj FULL STORY

  53. http://bit.ly/1aDGM5g

  54. TO THEMATIC MAPS AND BEYOND TYPE 3: TRENDS & CHANGE

  55. None
  56. None

  57. http://bit.ly/16SQXk5

  58. None
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  60. http://bit.ly/18G7YWH

  61. None

  62. blog.cartodb.com

  63. TAKE THE VIEWER THROUGH A STORY BY THE HAND TYPE

    4: NARRATIVE MAPS

  64. http://bit.ly/12edGe2

  65. bit.ly/19fjB6R

  66. http://bit.ly/1kgcw5K

  67. None

  68. BETTER MAPS & BETTER DATA VISUALIZATION WILL MAKE FOR BETTER

    STORYTELLING

  69. http://bit.ly/1cZSry2

  70. SOME GOOD WAYS TO MAKE MAPS GETTING FROM HERE TO

    THERE?
  71. None
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  74. cartodb.com/ academy 4500+ Students | 1.5 Hour Lessons | Free

  75. OVERVIEW

  76. LIBRARIES

  77. http://bit.ly/16SQXk5

  78. http://bit.ly/16SQXk5

  79. http://bit.ly/16SQXk5

  80. BASEMAPS

  81. None
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  85. DATA

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  87. INTERACTION

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  90. INTEGRATION

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  94. THIS ALL TAKES TIME

  95. None

  96. THAT’S WHY WE’RE GOING TO USE CARTODB

  97. None

  98. FIRST MAP IN ABOUT 5 MINUTES

  99. CARTODB WHAT’S IN THE BOX

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  104. Tile API

  105. SQL API

  106. simple

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  108. Data in

  109. GO!

  110. PART ONE CARTODB BASICS

  111. http://cartodb.com/ academy

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  115. PART TWO BASIC SQL http://bit.ly/1cuqyji

  116. a. SELECT BASIC SQL

  117. b. LIMIT,ORDER,ETC BASIC SQL

  118. c. FILTER BASIC SQL

  119. d. MATH BASIC SQL http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-math.html

  120. PART THREE GEOMETRY http://bit.ly/1cuqyji

  121. POINTS

  122. POLYGONS

  123. LINESTRINGS

  124. PROJECTIONS https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Geo-Projections

  125. None

  126. CARTODB CONVENTIONS

  127. POINTS MULTILINESTRINGS MULTIPOLYGONS

  128. the_geom PROJECTION WGS 84 SRID 4326

  129. the_geom_webmercator PROJECTION WEB MERCATOR SRID 3857

  130. the_geom ALL EDITS SHOULD HAPPEN ON: the_geom_webmercator ALL MAPS COME

    FROM

  131. ST_GeometryType

  132. ST_SRID

  133. ST_AsText

  134. ST_XMax

  135. CDB_LatLng

  136. GEOMETRY CALCULATIONS

  137. ST_Area

  138. ST_Length

  139. ST_NumGeometries

  140. ST_Distance

  141. ::geography

  142. PART FOUR MORE SQL http://bit.ly/1cuqyji

  143. KANSAS CITY ST_DWithin

  144. Bedford city ST_Intersects()

  145. UPDATE ST_Intersects()

  146. PART FIVE OTHER SQL

  147. ST_Buffer

  148. ST_MakeLine

  149. ST_Centroid

  150. ST_Simplify

  151. ST_Union

  152. PART SIX WHATEVER YOU WANT