Lab 9: Color Choropleth

Lab 9 presented us with color choropleth mapping. The difference between the printed version and the web version are noticeable. The colors and boundaries on the digital version appear more bold and defined than that on the paper copy. The paper itself, on the printed version, looks rough and definitely not as sleek and smooth as the web version. The color scheme and variation between interval classes appears to have remained distinctively in tact in both versions. The viewer can clearly decipher between the data classes.

choropleth... not chLoropleth

Here is weather map of precipitation approaching the Great Lakes. Each color on these types of maps represent an interval of data that has been measured.

This is an example of a proportional symbol map that I came across this week.

choropleth map

I thought this was an interesting choropleth map of the U.S. It represents the average number of males per 100 females, state by state. I thought there would be more red on this map. But really, what's up with Nevada?

dot map

This a population density map of Australia. I found it interesting to compare the population density map of Australia with the map of recorded shark attacks for this country. It makes sense that a region as notorious as Australia for Great White shark attacks has corresponding population to attacks data. The areas that are colored in red have the highest recorded shark attacks on file, followed by blue and green respectively. The photo at the top is one that I came across... thought it would provoke some sort of "holy s#*t" reaction. :)

Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia

another dandy exercise.

This is an aged map. The typography is more styled- fittingly of the time period it portrays. Maybe it is a historic artifact, pulled from a scroll. Or, maybe it's a relic used by Doctor Jones?