How to Lie with Maps

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2009-10 Hartford Area School District Racial Diversity

2009-10 Hartford Area School District Racial Division

Both maps illustrate the percentage of minority students in the Hartford area school district in the year 2009-10 . Although they seem to display different information, they are the same thing. In the first map, that shows racial diversity, there are multiple buckets therefor there is a greater range of data. In Google fusion the option of increasing or decreasing the buckets can be used to emphasize segregation or desegregation in maps. In the second map which shows racial division I just decreased the amount of buckets which provides less data, therefor it seems like the majority of the schools have a small minority population.