Investigative reporters use mapping for a wide range of stories: revealing crime hot spots; highlighting environmental destruction; uncovering demographic patterns; documenting war crimes. Here are ...

In the past, I’ve often used my New Year’s column to summarize the state of broadcasting and highlight last year’s developments and I what I expect to happen this year. I don’t have much to add to ...

Cite/Attribute as: Houtman L, G Baldrica-Franklin, and R.E. Roth. 2025. Mapping for a Sustainable World: QGIS Technical Supplement. The University of Wisconsin Cartography Lab. DOI: ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

Satellites are a powerful investigative tool. Journalists are mining satellite imagery and remote sensing data to expose a widening array of problems: tree loss and forest fires, pandemic risk and ...

From COVID-19 data dashboards and election results to personal finance apps and social media analytics, visual representations of data are increasingly ubiquitous in day-to-day life and in business.

This workshop cover approaches and guidelines for creating map figures for academic books and journals using QGIS 3.38 to illustrate one workflow in a graphical GIS. This general workflow can be ...

Scientific visualization aims to present numerical values, or categorical information, in a way that enables the researcher to make an inference that furthers knowledge. Well-posed visualizations need ...