Module 7 - Cartography - Choropleth Mapping

Classification of Percent Change in Population by State

This week in Cartographic Skills class, we learned about making meaningful and honest choropleth maps.  We classified population data from the US Census in two ways: percent change by state, and percent change by division.
We also had to establish a classification method for each map, that would properly take into consideration the distribution of the data.  Both of these maps were classified using the Natural Breaks method, in which naturally-occurring groups of data are classed together.

Classification of Percent Change in Population by Division

Besides learning about Choropleth Maps this week, I also got a lot of practice in organizing Adobe Illustrator layers.