Love Data Week 2022: Turning Data into Narratives with StoryMaps

Description

Join Johns Hopkins Data Services for a series of lightning talks exploring how ArcGIS StoryMaps can serve as a tool for transforming data into visually engaging narratives that center unique and underrepresented stories. The talks will be moderated by Lena Denis, geospatial data, GIS, and maps librarian, and include:

• "A Failed Statistics: Mapping Incommensurability in 19th Century Mexico": See how mapping and visualizing agricultural records from nineteenth-century Mexico can reveal unforeseen patterns in land ownership, labor, and the environment with Casey Marina Lurtz, assistant professor of history
• "A Topography of Death: The Human Side of Data": Get the full story of how data about migrant crossings became the powerful exhibition Hostile Terrain 94 with Natalia Stefanska, Johns Hopkins international/global studies, Class of 2024
• "Mapping Cultural Institutions in Baltimore from 1800 - 1940": See what 19th-century museum construction and attendance patterns show about education and entertainment in changing Baltimore neighborhoods with Debbie Kim, project associate, curatorial and exhibits, at Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream

To view all Love Data Week events and registrations, visit the Love Data Week 2022 webpage.