Participation of Women in National Governments

Data courtesy of:

• http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2008/SOWM-2008-full-report.pdf


• http://maps.google.com/


• http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/arc/classif300908.htm
  
• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
  
• http://www.unifem.org/progress/2008/politicsFS_box2d.html

Lab 10

This was my favorite lab so far - not only because it was our last but also because I felt like I learned some new techniques and tried them here; like the neat line drop shadow and some other things. This is a bivariate map showing two sets of data on one map.

Lab 9

This is a color version of Lab 7. The color versions, both hard and soft copy, display better than the grey scale version from Lab 7. To contrast the hard and soft copies, the printed version shows greater color changes. Specifically the two darkest colors on the hard copy are contrast more than when posted in the blog. However the two lightest colors contrast more with eachother than in the digital version. The lightest color on the digital version almost appears white whereas it is more tan on the hard copy. The only difference I would make, now that I can see the hard copy, is I would make the lightest color a little darker so as to not appear so white when seen on the computer screen.

Lab 8

This was a lab on proportional symbols. We pretended that the state of Maryland asked us to create a grey-scale map (we haven't had our color lesson yet) depicting the relative density of census data for each county. In a proportional symbol map, a symbol (cow) is scaled to various sizes to depict the relative magnitude of some value. Proportional symbol maps scale symbols to continuous sizes. Graduated symbol maps only scale symbols to discrete sizes.

Graduated Symbol Example

Lab 7

Lab 7: Grayscale Choropleth Maps of the 50 States
Comparison of Natural Breaks and Equal Interval

The map classed by equal interval gives an impression at first glance of a split between northern and southern states and shows a clumping of southeastern states. The natural breaks classified map appears more diverse. If I were to really use Natural Breaks I would have split it into many more categories but was limited to five for eye ease (especially since we were told to create the map in grayscale).

Choropleth Map

This is an example of a choropleth map courtesy of http://personal.uncc.edu/lagaro/cwg/color/Choro5-SingleHueGood.gif