Abstract

Banal Cartography: A Critique of Quantitative Content Analysis in Contemporary Cartographic Research

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  • It is argued here, that the results of this positivist trend are not all positive

  • To garner broad research appeal today, cartographic researchers often need to embrace some sort of statistical analysis

  • In a matter of less than 10 years, Quantitative Content Analysis (QCA) has gone from an esoteric research technique borrowed from the social sciences to a sure-fire method with which to push out numbers-driven cartographic publications

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Introduction

That the results of this positivist trend are not all positive. Abstract: This is a critique – a rebuke of a method that I helped promote and grow within the cartographic discipline. During this era of big-data fetishism, cartographers (including this author) have been searching for ways to analyze maps that are more quantitative than previous, descriptive methods.

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