Median Age in Washington

For this exercise, we were asked to peruse the census website and download a text file as well as the associated shapefile. I spent to much time trying to find some interesting data, instead of working on the assignment. I chose median age for two reasons: 1) the data was already normalized and 2) living in Pullman I was interested in the median age of the county. I assumed that it would be young based on the university, but then to see how that plays out over the whole state intrigued me. The layout of the map reflects the instructions provided. Again, the above map is the original and the below map is the revised. I added a title to the legend to relect that the data is by county. I also increased the font size of the scale bar and the source information for better visibility. I changed the north arrow. I thought the original was hard to see, and I moved it to the upper right corner. I think I have been making too many maps/figures on 8.5 X 11 paper. To me the north arrow belongs in the upper right corner.