Looking Outwards 07 – Data

https://ocean.rachelbinx.com/coral-map (can’t embed :<)

This happens to be an ongoing project, but I looked into Rachel Binx’s “Ocean Vis” collection of maps.
Binx is a data visualization specialist who bridges locational data with
She’s created maps of the oceans and their various biomes and species (coral specifically).
It caught my eye because I’d never seen a map that highlighted the oceans and was honestly initially confused as to the orientation.
I also began to feel more critical about my internalized definition of a map – I always saw them as land-oriented before (if someone asked me to draw the contour of an ocean I’d be really lost).