Choropleth
Map
Title
of map: Uninsured Population of Texas
Chororpleth
Map is
a map that uses differences in shading, coloring, or the places of symbols
within predefined areas to indicate values of property in those areas
Description
of Map: This map depicts the number of uninsured people in
the State of Texas county by county. The darker red indicates the number of
counties that have the highest Uninsured population with specific reference to
illegal immigrants.
Isarithmic
Map:
Map that represents data that have a “continuous distribution” and “smooth
change in value”. It also represents continuous data by a range of continuous
color/value or related classes of color.
Title of Map: Incidence of diarrhea in France, 1995
Description
of Map: The outbreak of diarrhea in France in 1995 was the
highest as the map indicates region by region. Those regions with high marks of
red are areas that were affected by the outbreak. The more other areas take
precautions, the more the drastic decline of the disease.
Title
of Map: Spatial Concentrations and Outliers of Poverty,
United States, 1999
Dot
Density Map: Is a type of map that uses a dot symbol
to show the presence of a feature or phenomenon.
Description
of Map: This map indicates the high poverty concentrations
of areas in the United States since 1999. There are ten different colors of
each region that has poverty per region with spatial situation. Dark red areas
have extreme high poverty rate and it has serious problem for the Federal and
State governments.
Proportional
Symbol Map: scale the size of simple symbols usually a circle
or square proportionally to the data value found at that location.
Title
of Map: US Lynchings 1882-1968
Description
of Map: As we can see, the number of people killed by
lynchings since 1882-1968 in the US is mainly concentrated in the South. The
victims are mainly Whites as the map depicts to its readers. The numbers
drastically decreased to one people perhaps when actions were taken by the
federal government.
