Regions are colored by a variable. Be careful with your color choices, as they can quickly change what the map shows.
This week I'm describing my process behind a quick map. You can download the code at the end of this issue.
Many charts don't tell the truth. This is a simple guide to spotting them.
Let readers focus on the regions they care about to make their own comparisons and conclusions.
Fill those empty polygons with color, based on shapefile or external data.
When presented with a static graphic, it can be useful to see specific values after you see overall patterns. This tutorial shows you how to add simple interactions to a choropleth map so you can get specifics for regions.
By Engaging Data, this interactive map shows various splits of the United States…
Researchers Xiaofan Liang and Clio Andris estimated the percentage of restaurants that are…
Emily Badger and Eve Washington for NYT’s The Upshot show how the housing…
The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops,…
To estimate public interest in the many political issues across the United States,…
Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The…
The New York Times mapped birth rates, which are down almost everywhere, especially…
About 48% of the U.S. population aged 15 and older is married. I was curious if there were regional variations, so I mapped it.
With this simple choropleth map, Lauren Leatherby for The New York Times shows…
As we have seen, small shifts in voting behavior of various demographic groups…
Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich for The New York Times show how policies…
We’ve been hearing a lot about national unemployment rate, but it’s not uniformly…
NYT’s The Upshot ran a survey through the data firm Dynata asking people…
There are over 1 million international higher-education students enrolled in the United States. This map shows where they reside.
It's hard to think of much else. These maps show the racial divide between black and white people in major cities.
Choropleth maps, the ones where regions are filled with colors based on data,…
