http://mason.gmu.edu/~rtolber3/415Final/RawUnemploymentMap.html
Friday, May 8, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Weekly Map 10
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-best-and-worst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0
This map is just really neat.
You select a county, and then a popup window tells you how much the average person from that county makes less than the national average at age 26. It also gives you a small blurb on the local area that the county in question is in! This is just a really cool tool. For instance, here's Fairfax County.
Weekly Map 9
#9: This week's task is to find a graphic regarding the earthquake in Nepal. Can be static or interactive. It is always interesting to see maps that are produced on short turnaround!
I don't like this map. There are simpler ones that convey the needed information much more quickly, and I think this map is much too cluttered, as if the person making it wanted to shove all the possible information on the Nepal earthquake down my throat at the same time. I'd drop all the graphics except for the bottom left one entirely, and I'd take two of the rows off of that one.
Weekly Map 8
#8: Last week's task was to find an interactive Javascript map -- any topic. Think along the lines of Labs 9 and 10.
http://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/datamapper/map.html
This interactive map isn't one that I particularly like. It gives too much freedom to the user, letting them decide the classification system, color palette, and the data displayed. I feel like it's not so much showing the user something as offering to show them everything, and as a result there are a lot of ugly map possibilities.
http://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/datamapper/map.html
This interactive map isn't one that I particularly like. It gives too much freedom to the user, letting them decide the classification system, color palette, and the data displayed. I feel like it's not so much showing the user something as offering to show them everything, and as a result there are a lot of ugly map possibilities.
Weekly Lab 7
This week I want you to find a map that allows you to interact with the display through panning the image around and zooming in and out. Think along the lines of what you can do in Google Maps...but with a neat dataset. Can be any version/style of basemap (i.e. does not have to be Google Maps). This will partner up with what we are doing for Lab 8 today with Leaflet!
http://www.wmata.com/rail/maps/map.cfm
This is a map of the Metro rail system around DC.
The data displayed on this map doesn't change, but since it's set in a small window the only reason it works at all is because you can zoom in to see details on the stops.
The data displayed on this map doesn't change, but since it's set in a small window the only reason it works at all is because you can zoom in to see details on the stops.
Weekly Map 6
This week I want you to find a web map that adds interest by utilizing a splash screen. Any style, any topic. Add a sentence or two explaining why you selected it!
http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/
I selected this map primarily because of how unobtrusive the splash screen is. I like that it's smaller than my window and very plain- it doesn't take up a lot of time to read and it has arrows that let you navigate to other hints on how to use the map.
http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/
I selected this map primarily because of how unobtrusive the splash screen is. I like that it's smaller than my window and very plain- it doesn't take up a lot of time to read and it has arrows that let you navigate to other hints on how to use the map.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Lab 10 Map
I mapped the Cities' Violent Index Crime Rate in 2009, using the data linked in the handout.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rtolber3/Lab10map.html
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