steven johnson on the ghost map

a book I really need to read:

"... and he evenutally created this map, which is where the title of the book comes from, that showed, in a sense, all the deaths in this neighborhood radiating out from this single point on the map ... and so at this moment of great terror and death and destruction, a new clarity emerges ..."

Comments

[marrije]

Yes, by all means, read it! I thought it was very good.

[dkp]

edward tufte (who's someone else you should read, claire, if you haven't already) discusses john snow's cholera map in fascinating detail from a data display perspective, in one of his brilliant books (i don't recall right now which one it wasy . . . mabye visual display of quant. data?) anyways, google edward tufte and check out his site if you haven't already done so.

and i'm so glad to see atlas(t) back! (atlas[t]!)