Contemporary American cartographic research: a review and prospective

Figures & data

Figure 1. Word cloud of terms included in 245 cartographic research paper titles 2015–2018.

Table 1. The most frequent terms in each of the 14 topic classes.

	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
Topic 1	data	urban	spatial	based	algorithm
Topic 2	crime	research	networks	media	analysis
Topic 3	based	spatial	analysis	visualization	evaluation
Topic 4	impact	scale	system	development	geospatial
Topic 5	approach	cartographic	visual	user	patterns
Topic 6	web	cartography	century	risk	assessment
Topic 7	spatiotemporal	analysis	design	geographic	road
Topic 8	case	environmental	cartography	area	systems
Topic 9	study	multi	geovisual	information	analytics
Topic 10	content	generated	repeat	deconstructing	large
Topic 11	gis	method	online	source	gps
Topic 12	exploring	new	data	open	generalization
Topic 13	spatial	grid	population	knowledge	multi
Topic 14	projections	social	time	transformation	county

Figure 2. Radar plots of the LDA probabilities for terms within topic clusters.

Figure 3. Word clouds for the five topic clusters (showing most frequent 50 words).