Else/Where: Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories

"Else/Where: Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories" is by University of Minnesotas very own Janet Abrams and Peter Hall. I have just started this and am very excited about it.

Overall, this is not about "mapping" in the traditional sense, but more about how traditional map making and cartography has created a new sense of information visualization in our lives. It is a set of essays on various people and projects that "mapping" the data around us, but not necessarily in the sense of addresses and state boundaries. It includes mapping things like social networks, genomes, email conversations, government services, etc.

I think this book will provide a good insight into modern and artistic ways of visualizing and analyzing data.