Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by speckx » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 1:50 PM UTC

Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond
chicagomaroon.github.io

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by Eldar_ » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

Map doesn’t work?

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by tagersenim » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

What a beautiful webpage! I especially like all the quotes that go with the different expansion phases.

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by welfare » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:25 PM UTC

What an amazing way of showcasing development, each with excerpts and notes highlighting expansion decisions.

Are there other examples of this?

Amazing!

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Post by Aeolun » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:31 PM UTC

This must be the first time I’ve seen the scrolling story thing actually work. Great job!

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Post by fsndz » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:34 PM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #5

This must be the first time I’ve seen the scrolling story thing actually work. Great job!

it's really awesome !

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Post by dcre » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

welfare wrote: post #4

What an amazing way of showcasing development, each with excerpts and notes highlighting expansion decisions. Are there other examples of this? Amazing!

The New York Times does a lot of great scrolling interactive data stories, unfortunately paywalled, and they don't translate well to archive sites.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/20/us/2024-year-...

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Post by ananmays » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

This is incredible scrollytelling map work, especially for a student newspaper, I'm pretty amazed.

Great job using MapLibre too, glad it is getting more and more popular.

For others in the thread wondering about other examples of this kind of journalism/mapping/data work, to my knowledge the best term for it would be 'scrollytelling' or 'storymapping' (which is an ESRI term but is used generally as well).

There are a ton of examples out there, but I'm sad there isn't a central repository of really great ones. The NYT and The Pudding are two places that do pretty cool stuff like this.

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Post by bell-cot » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:59 PM UTC

Eldar_ wrote: post #2

Map doesn’t work?

Javascript disabled or ads* blocked?

If "no", which web browser are you having problems with?

*I'm seeing no actual ads. Nor js from sketchy domain.

Re: Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

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Post by xnx » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 3:00 PM UTC

Good content. Scrolling is annoying. Would be nice to have j/k shortcut support to go to next/previous page of content.