Lab #1

Here is my first lab! It's a map of the 2008 presidentail election results. I like the colors but am wondering why the red looks so blurry. It looked fine in Flash! So far I'm liking Flash as a program, it looks like there are many new things to learn!

New Semester!!

I found this interactive map of the 2009 inauguration interesting (you might have to scroll down the page a little bit to see it). It displays the Mall area of DC, showing the parade route and different events. You can choose what information is displayed by clicking on icons. You can also zoom in and out of the map.

Final Project

So here is the final project for this class! As the title suggests, I mapped USDA certified organic livestock in the United States. The data is from 2005, the most recent year it was collected.

This map is a bivariate map where two groups were mapped; beef and poultry. You can see how most of the southern states in SE have very little certified livestock, in fact most of them have none at all. The same applies to SW part of the country, not including California. There is definitely a concentration of organic livestock in California and the Pacific Northwest, Texas and around the Great Lakes. States such as North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Kansas have large numbers of organic poultry but not that much organic beef production.

The map was more difficult to make than I had imagined. The bivariate color scheme was tricky and the data was very scattered having many extremely low values and on the other hand some very high values. The USDA logo could only be found online with a white box around it so I had to draw it myself. The type isn't the exact same used in the official logo but it is close enough.

Final Lab

So this was the final lab. I had some problems with Illustrator, for some reason the stuff I did in CS2 in the geography lab wouldn't work with my CS version. Couldn't select anything from the imported file.. So, I had to do the whole lab twice! Luckily I had my data ready but it still took a looong time. I think this lab turned out the best of all labs, I like the colors (not like the last disaster lab) and overall the map looks better. Sorry that this is a day late!!

Color!!

Finally a color map!! I think the colors look ok, though the printed version seems a bit sharper in quality. I would probably pick another background though, the text (numbers) is difficult to read with a bright red background.

Proportional Symbol Map

Missing California this week.. So here's a proportional symbol map which I found here.

Moo Moo!!