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Last week we told you about many different map projections and talked about why they are all wrong. This week we’ll discuss a few of our favorites, why we like them, and when they fail us. We also have another Star Wars themed Fun Paper Friday!

• How’s your 2016 so far? (PhD Comics)

• John’s Particle Motion Movie
• How To Detect A Secret Nuclear Test

• Consider what you need
• For dot density plots, equal area is important
• Mercator projection
• Gnomonic projection
• Great circle distance
• Great circle

• Compare landmasses to Africa.
• Mercator puzzle
• Wikipedia lists over 60 different projections!
• Strangest: Hammer retroazimuthal projection or Waterman Butterfly Projection
• Most boring/overused: Mercator Projection or Web Mercator
• Pleasing whole-world: Robinson , Winkel tripel projection, or Armadillo
• Polar Regions: Stereographic Projection or Pierce Quincuncial Projection

Feinstein, Zachary. “It’s a Trap: Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.09054 (2015).

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin