This is a similarity matrix which shows how similar a group's signatures are. The higher the score on the matrix, the more similar, the lower the score, the less similarities. This matrix can be found at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471.2164/8/353/figure/F5?highres=y
Friday, December 12, 2008
This is a bivariate , standardized choropleth map depicting nominal data. The map shows both how voters voted as a percentage of a counties population as well as whether the county is considered rural or urban. This map can be found at http://portfolio.kelsocartography.com/albums/protfolio.kelsocartography.com/2006-b/vaSenate.jpg
This is a classes choropleth map meaning that the data have been organized into specific intervals. Since only one set of data is being presented, this is also a univariate choropleth map. The information shown is raw data that has not been areally averaged so this is an unstandardized map as well. This map of the amount of money paid by the government to individuals as incentive not to grow crops on their land can be found at http://portfolio.kelsocartography.com/albums/portfolio.kelsocartography.com/2008/FarmDay1Map.jpg
This is a range graded proportional circle map meaning depicting the number of burglaries in each area of Philidelphia. Each size circle represents a particular range of numbers, meaning that only the four sizes represent all numbers on the map. This map can be found at http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/t/i/tib105/GEOG486/lesson7_Baugh.htm
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
This is an isobar map that depicts Cyclone Grace coming ashore in Australia in 2004. It is from a website of someone's personal travel memoirs an can be found at http://www.summ.org/travels/014_to-sydney/2004
Saturday, December 6, 2008
This is a cartographic animation of sea level air pressures. The entire series moves through each month of the year to show the annual flow. The top map is of December and the bottom is of June. This map came from the University of Wyoming and can be viewed at http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/JSHINKER/animations/global/flash/mslp.html
This is a statistical map which depicts the percentage of change in residents of each state from the 1990 census to the 2000 census. Each shade of green represents a different amount of change which makes it easy to interpret general trends in regions of the country though it is not as helpful for more specific analyzation of data. The information from this map comes from the US Census Bureau and the map can be found at http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/map02.gif
This cartogram depicts how many articles from each region were found in two current events magazines. These two particular representations are of The Australian and Slate. Each region on the map is scaled to represent how important each area is in the minds of the magazine's publishers. This map came from the website of a professor at the University of Montreal and it can be found at http://rs.resalliance.org/?s=cartogram
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