NACIS 2016 Presentation Rich Donohue, New Maps Plus, University of Kentucky, Department of Geography Andy Eschbacher, CARTO New mapping tools and needs continue to converge, producing stunning ways of visualizing data and gaining insights. Both industry and the academy are eager to embrace these emerging trends. Yet the challenge remains how to provide sufficient education and training to a growing population of mappers, as well as how to keep these materials current and useful. This talk explores mapping education from two complementary perspectives. CartoDB stands at the forefront of integrating frontend tools like D3 and Leaflet with backend services supported by PostGIS, enabling a web-based solution to traditional desktop GIS processes. New Maps Plus (U of Kentucky Department of Geography) blends the skills required to harness the web platform with traditional cartographic education.

1. Teaching new
cartography
Enabling spatial problem
solving with open source
tools
Rich Donohue, NewMapsPlus
Andy Eschbacher, CARTO

2. Modeling
analytical
thinking
with CARTO
Andy Eschbacher
Map Scientist, CARTO
@MrEPhysics

3. Research & Data team
Stuart Mamata John Andy
Andrew MichelleMehak

4. My first
maps
Studying the statistics of
chaos on a toroid

5. Physics Teacher
Arlington Public
Schools, Virginia
Radio Telescope, 2014

6. Education at Carto is going from
how to do things in carto?

7. 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?

8. Demo time

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

10. 1. Find events which happen in
California (intersects)Question:
How many
Californians would be
affected (within 50
miles) by a significant
earthquake?

11. 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?

12. 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?

13. 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?

15. ● 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)

18. Teaching New Technology
Shifting GIS Education to the Web
by Rich Donohue
@rgdonohue

27. Cartography Cubed Diagram Source: Roth, 2013

28. Map by Lauren Winkler, 2016

29. Map by Anna Bard, 2016

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

41. Every theoretical physicist who is
any good knows six or seven
different theoretical representations
for exactly the same physics?
- Richard Feynman (theoretical physicist)

42. You don't understand something
unless you know seven different
ways of explaining it.
- Andy and Rich (paraphrased)

43. Rich Donohue, @rgdonohue
Andy Eschbacher, @MrEPhysics
thank you!