{"id":10442,"date":"2013-10-28T15:14:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/?p=10442"},"modified":"2013-10-28T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:06:24","slug":"10442","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2013\/10\/28\/10442\/","title":{"rendered":"Lying with Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to Lie with Maps:<\/p>\n<p>Map Depicting Much Racial Diversity in Hartford School Districts, 09-10<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe width=\"600\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?q=select+col2%3E%3E1+from+1vM1-t9Tu6UneO6UKO7buzZ5Gco0Y5G0loChTno8&#038;viz=MAP&#038;h=false&#038;lat=41.86821261937007&#038;lng=-72.51580878125003&#038;t=1&#038;z=10&#038;l=col2%3E%3E1&#038;y=2&#038;tmplt=2&#038;hml=KML\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Map Depicting Little Racial Diversity in Hartford School Districts, 09-10<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe width=\"600\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?q=select+col2%3E%3E1+from+1GJ3XcFonXTEBm4ua9_c9-ZFHb7oLADNr9VMMDS0&#038;viz=MAP&#038;h=false&#038;lat=41.87946094481796&#038;lng=-72.65863104687503&#038;t=1&#038;z=11&#038;l=col2%3E%3E1&#038;y=2&#038;tmplt=2&#038;hml=KML\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Both of these maps display the same data; however, each graph tells an entirely different story. The first graph depicts a racially diverse neighborhood. In contrast, the second graph shows a huge disparity between segregated schools and non segregated areas. The way in which I was able to portray such a disparity, was by selecting different margins for the data. For example, the first graph utilizes over five different &#8220;buckets&#8221; as denoted on Google Fusion Tables. These &#8220;buckets&#8221; represent categories of change in terms of percentages. In the second graph, however, I only used two &#8220;buckets.&#8221; Therefore though the data is the same, the numbers are presented quite differently, giving what appears to be different results. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Lie with Maps: Map Depicting Much Racial Diversity in Hartford School Districts, 09-10 Map Depicting Little Racial Diversity in Hartford School Districts, 09-10 Both of these maps display the same data; however, each graph tells an entirely different story. The first graph depicts a racially diverse neighborhood. In contrast, the second graph shows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2013\/10\/28\/10442\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lying with Maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10442"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10446,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442\/revisions\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}