-------- Original Message -------- Subject: remedy for link error: Two color ramps for unemployment yielding 4 different messages Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:15:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Donna G Genzmer <[log in to unmask]> To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> The links contain an extra space or underbar at the end. Remove that and the links work (except for the last one). Donna ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From: *"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]> *To: *[log in to unmask] *Sent: *Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:41:50 PM *Subject: *Re: Two color ramps for unemployment yielding 4 different messages -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Two color ramps for unemployment yielding 4 different messages Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:29:47 -0400 From: Michael Holt <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Two color ramps for unemployment yielding 4 different messages Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:46:59 +0000 From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, Dotson, Daniel <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Several months ago a time-series unemployment map made the rounds and got a lot of buzz in social media. Maybe you remember it: _http://www.latoyaegwuekwe.__com/geographyofarecession.__html_ <http://www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html_> It's not working now. Should it be working? Of course we all know the unemployment situation is/was very bad, but is 5% unemployment really a statistic worthy of alarm? By that standard, we should have been alarmed 80 of the 119 years from 1890 and 2009: Back when I was interested in running businesses, I learned that "functional unemployment" is what we call the situation wherein workers are not working because they just joined the work force (graduated from college, and stuff like that) or because they were changing jobs. Normally, they said in my university classes in 1970 and 2000, it runs somewhere between 4% and 6%. It's not something to worry about. When the level reaches 8%, however, in both classrooms situations, the professors noted, there's a problem, and 10% can be considered "disaster." Michael Holt -- Donna G. Genzmer, GISP Director, Cartography & GIS Center Secretary, Treasurer, Webmaster, GIS Council University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PO Box 413 2025 East Newport Ave/Northwest Quadrant B 6535 Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA 414-229-4865 (p) 414-229-3981 (f) http://www4.uwm.edu/cgis http://www4.uwm.edu/gis http://people.uwm.edu/dgs http://www.linkedin.com/in/donnagenzmer http://www.twitter.com/MapGoddess