Last twelvemonth the Financial Times released a poster designed to aid people practise information visualizations. The FT's poster provides a direct to lots of dissimilar methods of visualizing information (including dissimilar types of mapped visualization) together with advice on when each method should travel used. The Github page of the Visual Vocabulary poster includes external links to advice elsewhere on the mesh on using each of the information visualization methods displayed on the poster.
Inspired past times the FT's Visual Vocabulary poster Pratap Vardhan has released his ain Visual Vocabulary - Vega Edition. This interactive version of Visual Vocabulary includes examples of each of the dissimilar visualization techniques created using the Vega visualization library.
The Visual Vocabulary - Vega Edition includes notes on a publish of dissimilar methods for visualizing spatial data. Each of these is accompanied past times an interactive Vega built map example. The information map visualizations include choropleth, flow-maps, point density, proportional symbol, equalized cartograms, scaled cartograms, contour maps together with oestrus maps. If y'all click on the edit buttons on these instance maps y'all tin opened upwards the map inwards the Vega Editor, where y'all tin edit together with modify the actual visualization.
Both the FT's poster together with the interactive Vega Edition of Visual Vocabulary render a proficient introduction to how dissimilar types of spatial information tin travel visualized on maps. The FT's GitHub page likewise includes links to discussions close if together with when maps should travel used to visualize data.
