Matt Riggott flother

Whenever we try to represent our 3D earth on a 2D map we necessarily introduce distoration. This tool attempts to visualize the phenomenon.

Inspiration

Original prompt by @curran
Bounding box solution by @tyrasd

References

projection comparison
map zoom

Annotated source code to make [this chart] [1] using [R] [2] and [ggplot2] [3]. The source data is included as justices.csv and a [write-up of the process] [4] can be found on my blog.

# An attempt to duplicate a chart published by the New York Times graphics
# department: http://nyti.ms/1ofeih6. After selecting the data around 80% of the
# work is done in the first ggplot() call. The other 20% --- that took at least
# 80% of the time --- are the following lines. They make this chart look like
# the original. If there's one thing I'd do better next time, it would be to
# make it resolution-independent (this version only really works at 1050x707).

More details can be found at http://flother.is/2016/supreme-court-ideology/.

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am flother on github.
I am flother (https://keybase.io/flother) on keybase.
I have a public key ASCBlQQowjnBso30LwncUDDlt0M9CjvIH7z-E_p2Y_Diuwo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	import os

	from flother.settings.common import *


	DEBUG = True
	TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True

	SITE_ID = 1

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Redirecting...</title>
	<link rel="canonical" href="http://flother.github.io/glasgow-cycle-hire/">
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://flother.github.io/glasgow-cycle-hire/">
	</head>
	<body>
	<p><strong>Redirecting...</strong></p>

	{
	"East Midlands": {
	"Derby": [],
	"Derbyshire": [
	"High Peak",
	"Chesterfield",
	"North East Derbyshire",
	"Amber Valley",
	"Bolsover",
	"Derbyshire Dales",

	# coding: UTF-8
	"""
	Scrape earthquakes measured by the Icelandic Meteorological Office (Veðurstofa
	Íslands) from 1991 to 2015.

	The data is collected from zipped KML files downloaded from vedur.is.
	"""
	from collections import OrderedDict
	from cStringIO import StringIO
	import datetime

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<title>Liberal Democrat polls and quarterly polling averages</title>
	<script src="//vega.github.io/vega-editor/vendor/d3.min.js"></script>
	<script src="//vega.github.io/vega/vega.min.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
	<div id="vis"></div>

	license: cc-by-sa-4.0
	border: no
	height: 600