The right paradigm: Maps

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to talk about Maps.…You can't really talk about map-based data visualization…without talking about Google Maps.…They pretty much single handedly brought maps…back to the masses.…Well, I guess, I mean that's not entirely fair…'cause they were preceded by some others…in the field, right?…But Google made Maps great and ubiquitous in a way…that really no one else has.…And you can really visualize so many different things.…So here I am searching for hockey rinks in Boston,…and as you can see, what Google Maps shows you is…so many different things, right,…there's so much data in this view.…

You know I see the roads.…If I zoom in, I can click on things and see markers.…I can see the thing that I've searched for.…In fact Google Maps is so great…that the more I zoom and the more I zoom,…I get more and more detail.…Different colorings to represent different types…of things like this is a university campus.…And if I zoom in far enough, I'll even see…the shapes of the buildings, right.…