{"id":7014,"date":"2022-05-10T09:26:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T07:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everviz.com\/blog\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2023-09-13T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T09:01:38","slug":"similar-stories-different-maps-a-visual-narrative-of-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everviz.com\/blog\/similar-stories-different-maps-a-visual-narrative-of-the-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Similar Stories, Different Maps – A Visual Narrative of the War in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This is a guest blog post by Rebeca Pop, founder of Vizlogue<\/a>, a Data Visualization and Storytelling Lab that offers workshops and consulting services. You can find Rebeca on YouTube<\/a>, where she posts data visualization videos. Rebeca has been providing insights and creating data visualizations for almost 10 years. She has worked as a digital analytics leader for top media and analytics companies, and is teaching Data Visualization and Storytelling at the University of Chicago and at Northwestern University. Read more about Rebeca in her bio below.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, media publications started sharing maps of Ukraine and its neighboring countries, as well as of the millions of refugees who were fleeing the war. As the war continued to develop, the story that media publications had to tell became increasingly more complex. A regular choropleth map and a point map were not sufficient anymore as they couldn\u2019t accurately depict the situation in Ukraine. As a result, we started seeing a lot of innovative thinking and new types of maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this blog post, I\u2019ll select and discuss a few unique maps that I\u2019ve seen in the media since the end of February when Russia invaded Ukraine. But, before I do so, let\u2019s first take a step back to review how maps came to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maps (or cartography) are one of the oldest types of data visualizations, which contributes to the fact that we tend to find them intuitive to read and understand. The history of maps can be traced back over 5,000 years ago. Early forms of maps were typically depicting small areas and were pictorial in nature. The Babylonian clay tablet map below depicts Babylon with the Euphrates River, mountains, and the ocean and is an excellent example of early maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA Short History of Maps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n