Over 500 complaints of sexual assail convey straight off been reported to the constabulary inwards Cologne, all occurring during the city's New Year's Eve celebrations. This shocking number of attacks, the vast bulk carried out past times immigrants of Algerian, Tunisian as well as Moroccan origin, has caused a backlash against Angela Merkel's 'Open Door' policy on refugees (although solely 3 of the 58 men arrested as well as then far were genuinely refugees).
Die Welt has straight off released a CartoDB map visualizing the sexual assaults as well as other crimes which took house inwards Cologne on New Year's Eve. Übergriffen von Köln uses CartoDB's Torque library to animate through the aeroplane of the evening, showing where the sexual assaults as well as other crimes took house inwards the city.
The animated map provides a basic temporal thought of the data. However the dots (representing the attacks) flash past times genuinely rapidly on the map. This speed, coupled alongside the fact that the map offers no way to thought all the attacks at 1 time on the map agency that the map for certain doesn't render a clear spatial overview of where the attacks inwards Cologne took place. You mightiness yell back that a spatial visualization was the betoken of using a map to visualize the information inwards the origin place.
The number is that Die Welt's map of flashing dots seems to both sensationalize as well as trivialize the sexual attacks at the same time. CartoDB's Torque library has come upwards inwards for a fair total of criticism for what Andrew Hill dubbed burger cartography. This is a shame because the Torque library is such a powerful tool for adding a temporal analysis to fourth dimension stamped spatial data. Perhaps CartoDB should practice a few to a greater extent than Torque powered maps themselves to genuinely present how a temporal analysis of spatial information tin travel done good alongside the library.
In defence of Die Welt the article which accompanies the map does render a much ameliorate analysis of both the times as well as the locations of where the bulk of the attacks took house inwards the city. It's simply a shame that a lilliputian to a greater extent than analysis of the information wasn't acquaint inwards their mapped visualization.
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