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All maps are wrong

December 10, 2016 By editor

Maps of the world are a perfect example of how difficult it is to prevent bias creeping into your modeling. People always have a perspective. And it's difficult to eliminate or compensate for it. Vox have a great video that discusses the difficulty of producing an accurate map of the world. It starts with the presenter slicing up an inflatable globe and trying to spread it out across the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science Tagged With: map, mercator, projection, Winkel tripel

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