Archive for the 'Geography' Category

Mapping data to change minds: a lesson from 1854

With free tools like Google Earth and mapbuilder so widely available, these days it seems that everyone’s a mapmaker.
But mapping data to location in an effort to reveal previously unseen connections—now that’s a taller order.
(To introduce learners to the concept, howtosmile.org’s data mapping activities are a good place to start.)
An excellent example of the power […]

Posted in Topics: Geography, Human Body, Medicine, Statistics, The Nature of Science

No Comments