Thank This Geographer for Making Sure New Maps Aren't a Total Mess | WIRED

So you fired up your GIS software and made an eye-popping, Christmas-colored map of holiday sales figures. Good job, genius, you’ve created a cartographic calamity: nearly unreadable by the color-blind and merely unintuitive to everyone else. You obviously haven’t met Cindy Brewer.

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