Alan MacEachren

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Geography

Research Summary

Research interests include spatial cognition, geographic information science, visual analytics, geovisualization, cartography, geocollaboration and human-centered systems.

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Recent Publications

The geography of sentiment towards the women’s March of 2017

Felmlee, D. H., Blanford, J. I., Matthews, S. A. & MacEachren, A. M., Jun 2020, In: PloS one. 15, 6, e0233994.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

User-centered design and evaluation of a geovisualization application leveraging aggregated quantified-self data

Nelson, J. K. & Maceachren, A., 2020, In: Cartographic Perspectives. 2020, 96, p. 7-31 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Understanding User Needs for Map Symbol Standards in Emergency Management

Robinson, A. C., Roth, R. E. & MacEachren, A. M., Jan 1 2020, In: Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 8, 1, 33.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Advancing the theory and practice of system evaluation: a case study in geovisual analytics of social media

Savelyev, A. & MacEachren, A. M., May 3 2020, In: International Journal of Cartography. 6, 2, p. 202-221 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Characterizing traveling fans: a workflow for event-oriented travel pattern analysis using Twitter data

Xin, Y. & MacEachren, A. M., Dec 1 2020, In: International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 34, 12, p. 2497-2516 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Utility and usability of intrinsic tag maps

Yang, N., MacEachren, A. M. & Domanico, E., Jul 3 2020, In: Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 47, 4, p. 291-304 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Geoannotator: A collaborative semi-automatic platform for constructing geo-annotated text corpora

Karimzadeh, M. & MacEachren, A. M., Mar 27 2019, In: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 8, 4, 161.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

GeoTxt: A scalable geoparsing system for unstructured text geolocation

Karimzadeh, M., Pezanowski, S., MacEachren, A. M. & Wallgrün, J. O., Feb 1 2019, In: Transactions in GIS. 23, 1, p. 118-136 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

(re)Considering Bertin in the age of big data and visual analytics

MacEachren, A. M., Mar 4 2019, In: Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 46, 2, p. 101-118 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review