I don't remember the authors of my textbook, but it was called something like principles of cartography and map design. We didn't learn the names of any particular scholars.
We spent a lot of time learning about color choices, labelling, balance, etc.
We also learned that while some things are conventions in cartography, some things are just a matter of taste.
Without being the designer of this map, I can only speak to how I read the map. First of all, when you're talking about cities, those are inherently geographical, so it makes sense to have them in a map rather than only in a list.
To me, knowing what countries the cities are in or if the city is a capital or not is not that interesting. If that was important data to convey, then you might want to design the map differently.
The interesting thing to me is seeing how much of the income goes towards rent, comparatively. Like, whoa, Lisbon is much worse than the other places that are nearby. Pie charts do well conveying rough percentages, and are relatively easy to design in software. So for me, I like this map, but I get why you would prefer the bar version that you shared in your textbook.
You could argue and I would agree that if lots of people are turned off by pie charts, then the map would be less offensive and more effective if it used a different method of visualization that did not distract from the data it is conveying.
Honestly, what probably bothers me the most about this map is its dumb projection.
Definitely. Believe it or not, I am also a cartography student, although in America, the map on the left in your textbook has way too much data that it's trying to communicate, but the map that OP posted since it is just one point on the map for each city. I think it's okay.
To your point about should it really be a map for us non-Europeans, the map contains so much more information than just a list of cities. We have the context of how close places are to each other, what countries the cities are in, etc. I think the map is way more useful to me rather than just a list of cities and their bar charts.
I really like the type of column that the map on the right has where you can tell that the base of the column is the geographical point on the map based on the 3D effect. In the amount of time I've spent in class I haven't learned how to make an effect like that, but I would know how to make a pie chart as a point.
I would hypothesize that they are noticing Batman on an unconscious level, but it was not salient enough to enter their conscious thought processes. And therefore if you replicated the experiment with an interruption to the daily routine that does not have superhero morality connotations (e.g. the gorilla suit) the result might not be as pronounced, and not as many people would give up their seat to the pregnant lady.
I am saving this thread to try and find a good tutorial for myself. That said, I have had a great experience on #networking on libera.chat, which is IRC. They have been very patient with me and often willing to go into detail in a beginner-friendly way.
Unfortunately, they are not accessible via the web chat, so you have to use an IRC client and register and account, which is relatively painless, but might take 10 to 15 minutes to get started.
This is why food addiction is really hard to deal with.
You can still participate in society at large while avoiding alcohol, although there are some subcultures that are difficult to be in.
But a lot of food addicts try to avoid specifically sugar, flour, and wheat, because those foods are the most addictive. But it is very hard to participate in mainstream society while avoiding proximity to these three things.
Every restaurant you go to will have people eating that stuff. When you go to people's houses they'll be cooking and eating that stuff. Because for most people they're not a problem, but for food addicts they are.
I guess I have no idea how the math symbols are supposed to relate to sexual orientation. Can you help with that part?
Also, IIRC square root of 4 has only one answer: 2, but negative 2 squared is equal to 4. The functions are asymmetric that way? Is that incorrect? This is all from vague memories of high school and college math.
Does the square root function always give a positive and negative answer? And we in society just kind of forgot about the negative one?
Do you have an example? For me, it would be very difficult to tell the difference between a single color that's a mix of 50% blue, 50% green, vs 45% blue, 55% green, and have any kind of idea what value they corresponded to. But with a pie chart, it's easy.
Are you talking about this kind of bar chart kind of thing?
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For me, this wouldn't work as well on a map because a pie chart is kind of like a big point, but the rectangular shape of the column would look weird on a map. You wouldn't know where the center of the column was supposed to be as easily as the pie chart is clearly directly on top of the city it's talking about.
But most of this seems like it is about subjective tastes rather than peer-reviewed studies on what kind of map is more useful.
I remember throwing one of these in ewaste once.
Pita to get working in ndiswrapper