Creating Geographic Visualizations
PLATO Lecture Series Spring, 2014 – Greeners on the Cutting Edge
Monday May 12, 1:30-3 pm, LH1
Frank Hardisty, Ph.D. Research Faculty, Penn State University, GeoVISTA Center
Geographic visualizations are interactive information graphics that show us spatio-temporal relationships from data. One of the key questions is how to link multiple views in visualizations. In this talk, Frank will outline his approach to linking views and data, and show some applications of his approach in Java and JavaScript, from the STempo and SensePlace2 projects.
Frank will also share some strategies for finding joy (and finding employment) in developing software.
Frank currently conducts research and teaches programming, geographic information systems, spatial analysis, and cloud computing at Penn State. He also works as a Java programmer and project manager at GeoVISTA, as the primary developer and maintainer of the GeoViz Toolkit suite of software for geographic visualization.
Companion Reading:
- Frank Hardisty and Anthony C. Robinson. The GeoViz Toolkit: Using component-oriented coordination methods for geographic visualization and analysis. Int J Geogr Inf Sci. Jan 1, 2011; 25(2): 191–210.doi: 10.1080/13658810903214203
- Morteza Karimzadeh, W. Huang, S. Banerjee, J. O. Wallgrün, F. Hardisty, S. Pezanowski, P. Mitra and A. M. MacEachren. GeoTxt: A Web API to Leverage Place References in Text. GIR’13 (7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval), November 05 2013, Orlando, FL, USA. DOI: 10.1145/2533888.2533942. ACM 978-1-4503-2241-6/13/11. Use by Evergreen students allowed under agreement with author and ACM.