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From: "Nat Case" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:25:08 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: Great choropleth map
Note, this is essentially standard Bureau of Labor Statistics coloring. See their also very interesting PDF showing the same data over 18 years (1990-2008 annual averages): http://www.bls.gov/lau/maps/cnseries.pdf
Nat Case, Head of Production
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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]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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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
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East Lansing, MI 48824
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The Map Library main number remains 517-884-6467
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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
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