[3/9/2015] Video and screenshots from this workshop are available on YouTube.
Hey, everybody! It’s Francesca. If you get into this document before the session starts, go ahead and create a free CartoDB account at Time permitting, we may also look at Palladio - (no account setup required).
Also, connect via Google Hangout on your computers at
Sample Projects:
# Liverpool Waterfront uses a raster overlay on top of Google Satellite basemap
# German Traces NYC uses (most likely) the Google Places API. More on that at
/* Locating London’s Past uses a raster overlay (1746 map of London) on top of a massive database of historical data. Great info on how they did it under “About”. */
/* Anna Kijas, Senior Digital Scholarship Librarian at Boston College, uses Omeka to present a biobibliography of the performer and composer Teresa Carreno, uniting primary source documents (reviews, concert programs, correspondence, etc.) from dozens of archives located around the world. She creates a geospatial and temporal visualization of one of Carreno's North American tours using Neatline. */
/* University of Virginia undergraduate student Kurt Jensen visualizes the travels of Yorick in Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. He uses Omeka with the Neatline plugin for maps and timelines. */
#Spread of U.S. Slavery. Shaded polygons. With timeline.
Data Sources:
American FactFinder (census geometries)
Tutorial on using Google Apps script for geocoding:
Anna’s blog post on using the Ruby Geocoder:
# Data and Tutorial Materials available at
CORRECTED locations for laureates:
LGG notes so far:
checkout American factfinder.com
Shapefile (Esri, ArcGis)
pull data in from AmericanFactfinder using **** (
Geocoded
History pin? Google MyMaps — can drop pins
In order to have maximal flexibility — have to use geocoding
CartoDB lets you have up to 100 free geo-codes/month
F has used a Google map script and pulled in the daty
A has used Ruby Geocoder package — command-line databases
Google - Mapquest API
Mapbox