afrimapr community meetup: 10 Maps and the Tech Stories Behind Them
Wed May 25, 12:00 - Wed May 25, 13:00
Event is online
ABOUT
In this talk, Maarten Lambrechts will share some of his mapping work. He'll talk about the design decisions that went into the maps, the data behind them, and the technology used to produce them. You'll hear about shapefiles, rasters, QGIS, Mapbox, D3.js, labelling, map projections and more!
afrimapr’s monthly virtual meetups aim to support the development of an active African R mapping community. It offers you a chance to learn about new resources, ask questions, showcase your work, and grow your R mapping network.
Come along and say “Hello!” No preparation or experience with R or mapping needed!
Our speaker
Maarten Lambrechts (Data journalist | Data designer | Visualisation consultant)
https://www.maartenlambrechts.com/
After graduating as a Master in Bio-engineering (where he first learned to make maps) Maarten spent some years working as an engineer and agricultural economist in Belgium and Latin America. Since the beginning of 2017 Maarten have been working as a data visualisation consultant. He gives training and workshops about data visualisation, produces charts and maps for media, governments and other organisations and helps to build new visualisation tools.
"As an engineer I know numbers, as a journalist I know storytelling. Datavisualization tells the stories hidden in data." - Maarten Lambrechts
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