thisguymaps (he/him)
@thisguymaps.bsky.social
🌎 Local govt GIS dude
👨💻 Currently combing through datasets and models for accuracy
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✨ Work hard. Be nice. Go outside.
👨💻 Currently combing through datasets and models for accuracy
🌱 Plant dad
✨ Work hard. Be nice. Go outside.
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I don’t do a lot of cartography these days, but figured I’d share my personal submission to the Esri UC Map Gallery this year: The United Swift of America! Wasn’t a Swiftie until my wife masterminded everything into my subconsciousness.
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The Big Map is up in the Kent Free Library! This is a project highlighting the history of our South End, a neighborhood of immigrants, Black southern migrants, and railroad workers. communitygeography.kent.edu/index.php/20...
August 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Big Map is up in the Kent Free Library! This is a project highlighting the history of our South End, a neighborhood of immigrants, Black southern migrants, and railroad workers. communitygeography.kent.edu/index.php/20...
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This is pretty cool! Snake on a Globe: your challenge is to move to the next apple and city in the most efficient manner, moving only along lines of longitude or latitude.
engaging-data.com/snake-globe
engaging-data.com/snake-globe
April 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is pretty cool! Snake on a Globe: your challenge is to move to the next apple and city in the most efficient manner, moving only along lines of longitude or latitude.
engaging-data.com/snake-globe
engaging-data.com/snake-globe
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Earth is so pretty.
April 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Earth is so pretty.
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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Transformative Thursday: Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor in the 1950s, proving continental drift and reshaping geology. 🌍📡 Her work was dismissed as “girl talk” until it changed science forever. How would we understand Earth without her discovery? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
tiny.cc/fl29001
tiny.cc/fl29001
Marie Tharp's groundbreaking maps brought the seafloor to the world
In part because of her gender, Tharp was the right person in the right place at the right time to make the first detailed maps of the ocean’s bottom.
tiny.cc
February 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Transformative Thursday: Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor in the 1950s, proving continental drift and reshaping geology. 🌍📡 Her work was dismissed as “girl talk” until it changed science forever. How would we understand Earth without her discovery? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
tiny.cc/fl29001
tiny.cc/fl29001
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🧰 How can you tailor a visualization to one very specific audience? What makes a locator map into a friendly guide? And what goes on inside the mind of a tourist? Our writer Rose answers in the latest "Fix My Chart":
👉 https://blog.datawrapper.de/fix-my-chart-map-guides/
👉 https://blog.datawrapper.de/fix-my-chart-map-guides/
February 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🧰 How can you tailor a visualization to one very specific audience? What makes a locator map into a friendly guide? And what goes on inside the mind of a tourist? Our writer Rose answers in the latest "Fix My Chart":
👉 https://blog.datawrapper.de/fix-my-chart-map-guides/
👉 https://blog.datawrapper.de/fix-my-chart-map-guides/
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Updated political map of the US, via www.instagram.com/timgough/ aka Dirty Hands Studio.
February 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Updated political map of the US, via www.instagram.com/timgough/ aka Dirty Hands Studio.
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🤫 Did you know about the area in the Appalachian Mountains where wifi and cell phones are prohibited? My map of Pocahontas County, WV for Stephen Kurczy's book The Quiet Zone shows where 📡
ℹ️ www.thisismikehall.com/thequietzone
ℹ️ www.thisismikehall.com/thequietzone
January 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🤫 Did you know about the area in the Appalachian Mountains where wifi and cell phones are prohibited? My map of Pocahontas County, WV for Stephen Kurczy's book The Quiet Zone shows where 📡
ℹ️ www.thisismikehall.com/thequietzone
ℹ️ www.thisismikehall.com/thequietzone
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If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Are "computer maps" interesting over here? archive.org/details/NASA... archive.org/details/NASA... archive.org/details/geog...
archive.org/details/indu...
archive.org/details/indu...
November 25, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Are "computer maps" interesting over here? archive.org/details/NASA... archive.org/details/NASA... archive.org/details/geog...
archive.org/details/indu...
archive.org/details/indu...
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
Hey new mappy followers! I mostly repost data viz inspo, best practices, and tutorials (maps or otherwise). As a millennial, I often express myself via memes and gifs.
a black and white photo of a woman wearing a fur coat .
Alt: A clip from Adele’s music video for Hello, where she’s dramatically shouting “Hello”
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Hey new mappy followers! I mostly repost data viz inspo, best practices, and tutorials (maps or otherwise). As a millennial, I often express myself via memes and gifs.