Mapping Data: Beyond the Choropleth
I recently gave a presentation as part of an NCRM Administrative Data Research Centre England course: Introduction to Data Visualisation. The presentation focused on adapting choropleths to create better “real life” maps of socioeconomic data, showing the examples of CDRC Maps and named. I also presented some work from Neal Hudson, Duncan Smith and Ben Hennig.
Contents:
- Technology Summary for Web Mapping
- Choropleth Maps: The Good and the Bad
- Moving Beyond the Choropleth
- Example: CDRC Maps
- Example: named – KDE “heatmap”
- Case example: Country of Birth Map – concerns of the data scientist & digital cartographer
Here’s my slidedeck:
(or you can view it directly on Slidedeck).