Teaching new cartographyEnabling spatial problem solving with open source tools

Rich Donohue, NewMapsPlusAndy Eschbacher, CARTO

Modeling analytical thinking with CARTO

Andy EschbacherMap Scientist, CARTO

@MrEPhysics

Research & Data team

Stuart Mamata John Andy

Andrew MichelleMehak

My first maps

Studying the statistics of

chaos on a toroid

Physics TeacherArlington Public Schools, Virginia

Radio Telescope, 2014

Education at Carto is going from

how to do things in carto?

how to think through your problem with carto and other open source tools

Education at Carto is going from

how to do things in carto?

Demo time

Question:How many Californians would be affected (within 50 miles) by a significant earthquake?

1. Find events which happen in California (intersects)Question:

How many Californians would be affected (within 50 miles) by a significant earthquake?

1. Find events which happen in California (intersects)

2. Filter out non-significant ones

Question:How many Californians would be affected (within 50 miles) by a significant earthquake?

1. Find events which happen in California (intersects)

2. Filter out non-significant ones

3. Find the total population within 50 miles (buffer + data observatory)

Question:How many Californians would be affected (within 50 miles) by a significant earthquake?

1. Find events which happen in California (intersects)

2. Filter out non-significant ones

3. Find the total population within 50 miles (buffer + data observatory)

4. Symbolize by population counts

Question:How many Californians would be affected (within 50 miles) by a significant earthquake?

● Question/hypothesis-based

● Modeling thinking to solve

problems

● Guided instruction via UI

● Prerequisites link to more

traditional skill-based pages

Our new Map Academy

(soon to be released)

Teaching New Technology

Shifting GIS Education to the Web

by Rich Donohue @rgdonohue

Cartography Cubed Diagram Source: Roth, 2013

Map by Lauren Winkler, 2016

Map by Anna Bard, 2016

Q: How can our intro course better shift our mapping practices to the web?

Every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics?

- Richard Feynman (theoretical physicist)

You don't understand something unless you know seven different ways of explaining it.

- Andy and Rich (paraphrased)

Rich Donohue, @rgdonohue Andy Eschbacher, @MrEPhysics

thank you!