Maps lie because they simplify. They lie in different ways, to show certain realities, and electoral maps are no different. In places where there are few people, hundreds of square miles turn red or ...

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Every election season, maps and charts take center stage on major news outlets and across social media. The public is hungry for numbers and understanding, and data visualizers and cartographers race ...

AI has dominated the headlines lately — and not necessarily in a good way. From AI bot ChatGPT helping college students plagiarize essays to tools like Dall-E potentially spreading misinformation, ...

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In most states, district maps — which define where the constituency of one representative ends and that of another begins — are drawn by the state’s lawmakers. Having politicians define their own ...

You practically need charts and graphs to keep up with House of the Dragon and its many plotlines, succession disputes, battles, dragons, kids, actors, and prophecies these days. And thankfully, we’re ...

Frederic Wilson receives funding from the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a member of the Alaska Geological Society Since ...

It is now conventional wisdom that the brain is the seat of the mind; it is alone through the brain's workings that we think and feel and know. Trying to understand how the brain works by looking at ...