Comments on: How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/ Strength in Numbers Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:57:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools « PixelBits http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-38013 How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools « PixelBits Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:37:59 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-38013 [...] January 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment via flowingdata.com [...] [...] January 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment via flowingdata.com [...]

]]> By: Anthony http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-37431 Anthony Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:44:05 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-37431 The link might help: http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=6636 The link might help: http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=6636

]]> By: Anthony Smee http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-37411 Anthony Smee Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:26:02 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-37411 Hi Nathan Excellent tutorial. I am a little behind the curve, but I have taken your tutorial and converted into a Processing App for the time series 2005 to September 2009. You might have to increase your Java Heap Space to run it, there is a lot of data to load! Thanks again, I can't wait to work through the next one! Regards Anthony Hi Nathan

Excellent tutorial. I am a little behind the curve, but I have taken your tutorial and converted into a Processing App for the time series 2005 to September 2009.

You might have to increase your Java Heap Space to run it, there is a lot of data to load! Thanks again, I can’t wait to work through the next one!

Regards

Anthony

]]> By: T Ricketts http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-37283 T Ricketts Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:13:51 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-37283 FIPS is now INCITS, see http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ansi/ansi.html FIPS is now INCITS,
see http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ansi/ansi.html

]]> By: Amos Newcombe http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-37184 Amos Newcombe Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:43:17 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-37184 A couple of tags in the SVG file get mangled by BeautifulSoup. See earlier comments for solutions. A couple of tags in the SVG file get mangled by BeautifulSoup. See earlier comments for solutions.

]]> By: Garrett http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-37179 Garrett Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:51:58 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-37179 I just used this method to create a map for a project I'm working on. Thanks for the tutorial! I just used this method to create a map for a project I’m working on. Thanks for the tutorial!

]]> By: Daniel Sato http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-37173 Daniel Sato Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:54:07 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-37173 Not knowing anything about python, I copied and pasted the code in step 13, following ### colorize_svg.py into a new document that I titled colorize_svg.py. I also removed any line breaks in the county style section, which seemed to give me problems initially. When I run the script, it does generate a file titled unemployment2009.svg, but all I see is a blank white document. When I open the document in a text editor, there is definitely information in it, though I cannot yet decipher it (being the layman that I am). I am running python 2.5.1 and have beautiful soup 3.0.8 in the same folder as all of my unemployment/colorize files. Any ideas? Not knowing anything about python, I copied and pasted the code in step 13, following ### colorize_svg.py into a new document that I titled colorize_svg.py. I also removed any line breaks in the county style section, which seemed to give me problems initially.

When I run the script, it does generate a file titled unemployment2009.svg, but all I see is a blank white document. When I open the document in a text editor, there is definitely information in it, though I cannot yet decipher it (being the layman that I am).

I am running python 2.5.1 and have beautiful soup 3.0.8 in the same folder as all of my unemployment/colorize files.

Any ideas?

]]> By: Choropleth maps of Africa - My Microcosm http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-37035 Choropleth maps of Africa - My Microcosm Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:19:05 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-37035 [...] admin on Dec.08, 2009, under Programming A few weeks ago I was delighted to see a guide on to how create a choropleth map. The article, not only uses Python, but was perfectly timed with my exploration into SVG files and [...] [...] admin on Dec.08, 2009, under Programming A few weeks ago I was delighted to see a guide on to how create a choropleth map. The article, not only uses Python, but was perfectly timed with my exploration into SVG files and [...]

]]> By: Infomaps using R – Visualizing German unemployment rates by district on a map « R you ready? temporary R-Test-Blog http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-36383 Infomaps using R – Visualizing German unemployment rates by district on a map « R you ready? temporary R-Test-Blog Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:00:33 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-36383 [...] choropleth map (= multiple regions map/thematic map) on US unemployment rates he had seen on the Flowing Data blog. Here you can find the impressing results. Being a fan of beautiful visualizations I tried to [...] [...] choropleth map (= multiple regions map/thematic map) on US unemployment rates he had seen on the Flowing Data blog. Here you can find the impressing results. Being a fan of beautiful visualizations I tried to [...]

]]> By: Amos Newcombe http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/#comment-36318 Amos Newcombe Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:21:37 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=3581#comment-36318 Python 3 is a significant departure from Python 2.x, and many third-party libraries, evidently including BeautifulSoup, are broken and need to be rewritten by their developer. You're better off using Python 2.6 for this. Python 3 is a significant departure from Python 2.x, and many third-party libraries, evidently including BeautifulSoup, are broken and need to be rewritten by their developer. You’re better off using Python 2.6 for this.

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