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Subject:        RE: Great choropleth map
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:40:29 -0500
From:   Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
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My main issue with this map is the appropriateness of giving 5% unemployment a bright red color, as it suggests that 5% is the proper point at which people should feel alarmed. If so, we should have been alarmed 82 of the last 119 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Unemployment_1890-2008.gif


Kathleen Weessies
Geosciences Librarian
Head, Map Library
Michigan State University
100 Library W308
East Lansing, MI  48824
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Subject: Great choropleth map

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Subject:        Great choropleth map
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:52:59 -0500
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I'm sure everybody has seen this, but just in case...

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

One map worth about a zillion words.

TM

Toby Main
State Library of New Mexico
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507