Episode 50 - "Some serious geometric voodoo" Projections Part 2

Last week we told you about many different map projections and talked about why they are all wrong. This week we’ll discuss a few of our favorites, why we like them, and when they fail us. We also have another Star Wars themed Fun Paper Friday!

• How’s your 2016 so far? (PhD Comics)

Nuclear Test

• John’s Particle Motion Movie


• How To Detect A Secret Nuclear Test

Picking a Projection

• Consider what you need


• For dot density plots, equal area is important


• Mercator projection


• Gnomonic projection


• Great circle distance


• Great circle

Our Favorites

• Compare landmasses to Africa.


• Mercator puzzle


• Wikipedia lists over 60 different projections!


• Strangest: Hammer retroazimuthal projection or Waterman Butterfly Projection


• Most boring/overused: Mercator Projection or Web Mercator


• Pleasing whole-world: Robinson , Winkel tripel projection, or Armadillo


• Polar Regions: Stereographic Projection or Pierce Quincuncial Projection

Fun Paper Friday

Feinstein, Zachary. “It’s a Trap: Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.09054 (2015).

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