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Digital Mapping & Visualization Guide

This guide introduces digital mapping and data visualization tools that enhance research presentation across disciplines. It highlights various free online tools such as Tableau, Palladio, and Gephi for creating maps and visualizations, along with suggestions for sharing and editing work online. The document also encourages learning more about these tools through courses and provides contact information for further inquiries.

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Digital Mapping & Visualization Guide

This guide introduces digital mapping and data visualization tools that enhance research presentation across disciplines. It highlights various free online tools such as Tableau, Palladio, and Gephi for creating maps and visualizations, along with suggestions for sharing and editing work online. The document also encourages learning more about these tools through courses and provides contact information for further inquiries.

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Introduction to Digital Maps

and Data Visualizations


This guide introduces you to the basics of digital mapping and data visualization.
Regardless of your discipline, these tools can enhance your research and provide
you with new ways to present that research to the world. Many useful tools are
available for free online and require little to no programming knowledge.
DIGITAL MAPS VISUALIZATIONS
• Try Tableau with a free educational Data
account! The Swiss army knife of • Tableau (see left) offers many
mapping tools. Create a new ways to visualize data.
workbook, connect your data,
modify filters and visual elements • Palladio is a free, online tool out of
to make your map. Programming Stanford. It does mapping, as well
knowledge not required. as network visualizations. Works
with tabular data, spreadsheets.
• Make basic maps using Google
Maps (take advantage of • Gephi is open-source and free to
WordPress widgets and plugins), download. A useful, out-of-the-box
Google Earth, OpenStreetMaps. software for graphs and networks.
• Geocoding allows you to generate • D3 Gallery – interactive 3D web
coordinates for a large number of features made with Javascript.
locations. Use it to plot locations • Consider a programming course
on a map. Try batch geocoding at with the Computer Science
doogal.co.uk/BatchGeocoding.php. Laboratory – learn to customize
• For more complex tasks, learn to your data visualization tools.
use GIS (Graphic Information Text
System). ArcGIS: expensive but • TAPoR offers an archive of
solid. QGIS: free and open source. visualization tools for texts.
• Use SketchUp, SketchFab, and • Voyant Tools is a web-based
MeshLab to create 3D maps. These platform that reads and analyzes
tools are all free and online. Rich- texts to create word clouds, etc.
information 3D maps can also be (Make a word cloud, take a
made using Javascript. screenshot, put it on your website!)
• Mallet is open-source and free to
SHARE YOUR WORK ONLINE! download. Great for topic modeling
• Put images on your website! – it can automatically classify and
compare groups of text.
• You can do this simply by taking a
screenshot of the image you want. WANT TO LEARN MORE?
• To do additional image editing, use This handout is adapted from
GIMP, Photoshop, Apple Photos, or
even MS Paint. information and materials presented
by Dr. Jeffrey Tharsen (Research
• Export your image as a PDF, PNG, Computing Center) as part of the
or SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic). UChicagoGRAD Workshop Series
• Post to your website and then use “Digital Literacy for Humanists.” Dr.
the image to link to your analysis. Tharsen welcomes questions related
• Tableau Online hosts maps and to these and other computing topics.
images. Reach him at [email protected].

paths.uchicago.edu

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