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Sarah Battersby

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Sarah Battersby is a research scientist at Tableau Software. Her primary area of focus is cartography, with an emphasis on cognition. Her work emphasizes how we can help people visualize and use spatial information more effectively. Her research has covered a variety of areas, including perception in dynamic map displays, geospatial technologies and spatial thinking abilities, and the impact of map projection on spatial cognition. She works closely with the maps development team. Sarah earned her PhD in Geography from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is a member of the International Cartographic Association Commission on Map Projections, and is a Past President of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society – a society composed of educators, researchers and practitioners involved in the design, creation, use and dissemination of geographic information. 

Focus

  • Spatial Visualization
  • Map Projections
  • Perception and Cognition

Papers

OSCAR: A Semantic-based Data Binning Approach

Vidya Setlur, Michael Correll, Sarah Battersby
IEEE VIS 2022 (Oklahoma City, OK, USA, October 16-21)
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GeoSneakPique: Visual Autocompletion for Geospatial Queries

Vidya Setlur, Sarah Battersby, Tracy Wong
IEEE Vis (Oct 23 - 28, 2021)
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The Unicorn of Map Projections

Sarah Battersby
International Journal of Geography
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Understanding the Role of User Interface for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in Supporting Exploratory Usage of Information Systems

Sungsoo Ray Hong, Rafal Kocielnik, Cecilia Aragon, Sarah Battersby, Juho Kim
Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (January 4-8, 2021)
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Global mapping of future glaciovolcanism

Benjamin Edwards, William Kochtitzky, Sarah Battersby
Global and Planetary Change

Working with Map Projections: A Guide to Their Selection

Fritz Kessler, Sarah Battersby
CRC Press

Evaluating Young People’s Area Estimation of Countries and Continents

Lieselot Lapon, Philippe De Maeyer, Nina Vanhaeren, Sarah Battersby, Kristien Ooms
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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To Distort or Not to Distort: Distance Cartograms in the Wild

Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Min-Joon Yoo, Bonnie Chinh, Amy Han, Sarah Battersby, Juho Kim
CHI 2018, April 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada

Designing Interactive Distance Cartograms to Support Urban Travelers

Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Rafal Kocielnik, Min-Joon Yoo, Sarah Battersby, Juho Kim, Cecilia Aragon
The 10th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2017).
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Map Projections and the Internet

Fritz C. Kessler, Sarah E. Battersby, Michael P. Finn, Keith C. Clarke
Kessler F.C., Battersby S.E., Finn M.P., Clarke K.C. (2017) Map Projections and the Internet. In: Lapaine M., Usery E. (eds) Choosing a Map Projection. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer

Eviza: A Natural Language Interface for Visual Analysis

Vidya Setlur, Sarah E. Battersby, Melanie Tory, Rich Gossweiler, Angel X. Chang
ACM User Interfaces and Software Technology (UIST) 2016
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Shapes on a plane: Evaluating the impact of projection distortion on spatial binning

Sarah E Battersby, Daniel 'daan' Strebe, Michael P. Finn
Cartography and Geographic Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2016.1180263
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A Research Agenda for Geospatial Technologies and Learning

Tom R. Baker, Sarah Battersby, Sarah W. Bednarz, Alec M. Bodzin, Bob Kolvoord, Steven Moore, Diana Sinton, and David Uttal
Journal of Geography 114: 117-130
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Implications of Web Mercator and its use in online mapping

Sarah E. Battersby, Michael P. Finn, E. Lynn Usery, Kristina H. Yamamoto
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 49(2), 85–101.
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