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The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you

The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.washingtonpost.com - July 29, 2016 2:33 AM
How to tell two radically different stories with the same dataset.
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Jose Sepulveda's curator insight, July 29, 2016 1:19 PM
thee precaution should be taken with environmental data published as integrated variable maps   
Colleen Blankenship's curator insight, August 4, 2016 9:12 AM
Maps, like statistics, can tell very different stories using the same information!  Read this for some examples!
Mr Mac's curator insight, August 16, 2017 7:17 PM
Unit 1 - Thematic Maps (use of )
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Why Mercator for the Web? Isn’t the Mercator bad?

Why Mercator for the Web? Isn’t the Mercator bad? | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.mapthematics.com - October 4, 2015 5:35 AM

"As you may know, Google Maps uses the Mercator projection. So do other Web mapping services, such as Bing Maps and MapQuest. Over the years I’ve encountered antipathy toward the use of the Web Mercator from map projection people. I know of two distinct schools of opposition. One school, consisting of cartographic folks and map aficionados, thinks the Mercator projection is 'bad': The projection misrepresents relative sizes across the globe and cannot even show the poles, they are so inflated. The other school, consisting of geodesy folks, thinks mapping services have corrupted the Mercator projection, whether by using the wrong formulæ for it or by using the wrong coordinate system for it."

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