Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Cartographic Skills Lab III - Data Classification


The maps presented above, illustrate the distribution of the African American population throughout Escambia County, FL. Each map was created using a different method of classifying data, including; natural brake, standard deviation, equal interval and quantile. 





I think that the Natural Brake method would be best to present the data to the broadest range of audiances.

It seems that the standard deviation method is too vague in expressing the information it tries to communicate. The quantile method has too great of a range for the highest value in the legend, and the equal interval method too great of a range for the first value making the map look very plain. The natural brake method map looks detailed in expressing the spread of the values across the county, and also at expressing the patterns of increase and decrease throughout Escambia County.

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