Lying with Maps of Total Adult Served by Capital Workforce Partners

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The two maps above show the total adults served by my community partner, the Capital Workforce Partner. For both maps I used gradient of purple to fill in the polygons, because the gradient can illustrate difference in quantity of the same data type, which in this case is the number of people served. While the first map emphasizes sameness, the second one highlights extreme inequality. For the first map, I narrowed down the ranges for the towns with lowest and highest number of people served. As the range of the medium number of people served are very wide, almost all towns fall into this category, which creates a sense of equality. On the other hand, for the second map, I expanded the range for the high and low number of people served. This creates more disparity among the towns. The towns in the middle of the state, such as Hartford have high number of people served, whereas many towns in the boundary still have not many people served. Hence, by changing the range of number of adult served, I can make two contrast maps of the same data, one emphasizes sameness, while the other highlights inequality.