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Alan MacEachren  

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  • Alan MacEachren is an American cartographer, an author, and a professor of geography at Pennsylvania State University. He is a pioneer in cartography and geographic information science (GIScience) research, known particularly for popularizing the term geographic visualization and setting its research agenda and more recently for establishing and directing the GeoVISTA Center at Penn State and launching the research initiative of geovisual analytics. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; MacEachren, Alan]

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