This map depicts the strange, gerrymandered-seeming boundary that has developed between the Ravenswood City School District (comprised of the City of East Palo Alto and the northern portion of Menlo Park, California) and the adjacent Menlo Park School District, as neighborhoods to the southwest of a major freeway, US Highway 101, opted to leave the [...]

I completed this map in October 2012, just in time to exhibit it in the Map Gallery at the NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society) Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. I spent a portion of most of my weekends from December 2011 to October 2012 working in earnest on the project, though I had developed [...]

Martin Lewis of GeoCurrents commissioned this set of maps comparing two Bay Area rail transit lines—the Bay Area Rapid Transit system’s SFO-Pittsburg/Bay Point line and the Caltrain commuter line—with similar lines in the eastern United States (Washington D.C.’s Orange line and the Main Line in Philadelphia, respectively).  I decided custom line graphs would provide additional [...]

Developed with Stanford linguistics expert Asya Pereltsvaig and Stanford History professor Martin Lewis for the GeoCurrents blog.  Read the original post here. This is actually the second version of the map, after Asya and Martin solicited feedback from readers to correct errors and inaccuracies. Read about the revision here.   The great circle route from London [...]

This is a cartogram I developed that resulted from a collaboration with Stanford History professor Martin Lewis and Anne Fredell, a research assistant at the Spatial History Project.  I employ the Gastner-Newman method, using a cartogram tool available for ArcGIS desktop.