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Viz Palette Helps You Pick Colors for Data Visualizations

April 12, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

There’s a new color picker tool to help with selecting a palette for data visualizations.

The default style for the Ordnance Survey (top) as compared to the new color blind friendly scheme (bottom).

Making Color Blind Friendly Maps

May 22, 2011By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

It’s estimated that about 7% of males are color blind in some form (as compared with 0.4% of females). While a very small percentage don’t see color at all, the most common form of color blindness is the inability to differentiate red and green colors. One area that color […]

Detecting Storm Intensity from Satellite Imagery Using Machine Learning

The Deep Learning-based Hurricane Intensity Estimator is an experimental portal that uses machine learning techniques to analyze spatial patterns in infrared satellite imagery in order to predict tropical cyclone intensity.

How Plex.Earth is Used in Teaching: An Interview With Professor Martin Cajade

Eleni Natsi from Plexscape recently interviewed Martin Cajade, who teaches in the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism (FADU) in the University of the Republic in Uruguay, about how his students incorporate PlexEarth as a data mining tool.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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