Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Week 6 - Choropleth Mapping

This is the black and white version with the calculations for each division. I am not sure if this was done correctly but I took each divsion and calculated the average from all the states to come up with my percentage. Next was to display this by using Illustrator. It seems that there should be many shortcuts that I just do not know about. It takes a long time for me to do anything in this program. It also does not help that the remote desktop has a lag time.


This map was fairly simple to complete. However, my biggest challenge was trying to figure out how to change the projection. I could not find the Albers projection...the discussion board is great...thanks again Lynn.


1 comment:

  1. Good job Emily. Just a couple of suggestions. I would have liked to see more of a contrast between the background and the states in your first map. They look very similar to me. Also, I like the labels, but in some places they are cluttered, so it would have been fine to leave them off all together.

    Leah

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