Racial Diversity in Hartford Area Schools: 2009-10
Racial Diversity in Hartford Area Schools: 2009-10
The two maps above display the same information. Interestingly enough, I was able to use the same data and display two completely different interpretations of that data using Google Fusion Tables. Although both maps represent the same numerical data, the geographical representations may look entirely different because of the ability to switch the way each county is set up and the number of “buckets” (data sets) I wish to be shown on the map. The first visual map depicts a very diverse Hartford area, each bucket representing different percentages of minority students enrolled in schools. Because there are a total of six buckets represented in the first map, one can tell that the area being observed is diverse- one can see the different amounts of percentages in each area within the map that represent the differing town statistics. On the other hand, the second map shows very little diversity in the Hartford area. The data interpreted in the second map is exactly the same to the first, but the legend shows that in the second map there are only a few “buckets” of numerical data to be represented on the map. As one can see, the map then shows large amounts of shaded regions in one area of the map, whereas it looks less concentrated in the middle of the map. The simple alterations of the number of buckets being represented in both maps allows for the maps to depict same data in differing views-one showing more diversity (different shaded regions), and another one showing less diversity (large amounts of one color overbearing the entire map.