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To show stark contrast, I made the gradient much darker for those areas whose minority was above a certain percent, and those below much lighter for the above map. \u00a0By creating only three gradients for towns to reside in, the contrast between towns became very apparent. This is only because the settings made it so the towns surrounding Hartford, Bloomfield, Windsor and East Hartford all resided under a certain percentage mark, so they all became very light green, appearing that they all have the same minority percentage. \u00a0This is untrue of course, but since the towns are all grouped in the same category in this map, it is easy for the reader to make this conclusion.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the map above, the contrast between the different areas is much less identifiable. \u00a0In this map, I adjusted the gradients so there were more categories of around the same tint of green. \u00a0Since there are more categories, the difference in percentages of the towns are easier to see, showing an area that looks much more\u00a0homogeneous than the previous map.<\/p>\n This stark contrast between two maps with the same data exemplifies that the reader must be careful when coming to conclusions about maps. \u00a0They should ask themselves questions such as, “Does the scale use rational increments?” and “What is the range of this color–is it small or large?”. \u00a0After the reader asks questions such as these, they can start to make conclusions, but it can be dangerous to assume that one color means all the regions with that color have the same minority composition (or whatever is being measured), instead it is wise to look at how large the range is; then the reader can determine how alike the regions actually are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When analyzing maps, it is important to look at the scale in which the author used to make the map. In addition to this, the reader should also investigate what the scale does in comparison to what point the author … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n