Of the different methods of visually representing data put forth by these three designers, I found Laura Kragen’s work particularly insightful and compelling. This is due, in part, to my greater interest in her subject matter; hers is a story that is currently unfolding, and it is her maps that are enabling it to be told. In Morrish’s work I often felt as though the images were gratuitous. While I greatly enjoyed his discussion of the role of geographic formations as the drivers of human settlement throughout history, his paragraphs coupled with the definitions he provided told the entirety of the story, and the images were closer to illustrations than maps. This is in direct contract to Kragens’s work, where the maps produced are the story. Kragen’s maps are generative and can be used as tools to begin developing new approaches to the problem of the “geography of incarceration and return” in our inner cities.