{"id":2420,"date":"2016-03-03T22:44:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T03:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2016-03-09T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:18:02","slug":"maps-that-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/2016\/03\/03\/maps-that-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps that Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Map #1<br \/>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?q=select+col2%3E%3E0+from+1ptoyG-YMSyWEtusEVVg38sGxkpUsFNDekr0rGEU5&#038;viz=MAP&#038;h=false&#038;lat=41.50310769493793&#038;lng=-72.75750800000003&#038;t=1&#038;z=8&#038;l=col2%3E%3E0&#038;y=4&#038;tmplt=4&#038;hml=KML\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<br \/>\nMap #2<br \/>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?q=select+col2%3E%3E0+from+1ptoyG-YMSyWEtusEVVg38sGxkpUsFNDekr0rGEU5&#038;viz=MAP&#038;h=false&#038;lat=41.55862205553488&#038;lng=-72.88385077343753&#038;t=1&#038;z=8&#038;l=col2%3E%3E0&#038;y=2&#038;tmplt=3&#038;hml=KML\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>These two maps display the population of each town and city in Connecticut. In map one I chose to make categories that evenly split the difference between the highest and lowest population into thirds. This displayed most towns in Connecticut in the lowest category (blue) because they all fall below 49,000 people. Highly populated areas like Hartford, Stamford, and other\u00a0cities\u00a0were the only areas represented in the other two categories (green and yellow). For the second map, I divided the first category in map one into three separate categories. This shows a variation of categories for smaller towns and portrays a disparity of population across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map #1 Map #2 These two maps display the population of each town and city in Connecticut. In map one I chose to make categories that evenly split the difference between the highest and lowest population into thirds. This displayed most towns in Connecticut in the lowest category (blue) because they all fall below 49,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/2016\/03\/03\/maps-that-lie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maps that Lie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}