In his great blog The Daily Viz Matt Stiles recently posted this map of US crime rates. The map shows murder rates in different cities as bubble symbols and it strongly reminded me to write about the problem of overlapping map symbols.
Date Archives → 20/12/2011
How To Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors
As some of you pointed out in the comments of my last post, taking equidistant colors in the HSV color space is no solution for finding a set of colors that are perceived as equidistant. This post describes what’s wrong with HSV and what we can do about this. Note that since this post contains interactive elements built on the latest web technologies, you might need a modern browser to get the most out of it.
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Take Care of your Choropleth Maps
Over the last week I had some fun playing with choropleth maps. Thereby I analyzed the following US poverty map, which was recently published at the Guardian data blog:
To be honest, the first time I saw this map I didn’t thought much about it. Ok, poverty is highest in south central of the United States, especially near Mexican border. But recently I used the same data to demonstrate a choropleth map that I created from-scratch and I was really surprised to see a somewhat different picture: