Final Project

The two final project maps range in scale from the country level to the state level. The first map (above) is of Kenya, in eastern Africa. I used an isarithmic mapping technique to display annual rainfall for the year 2002. The map was created from weather station control points and then the precipitation value was interpolated, using the inverse distance weighted (IDW) method, to create the continuous field. The second map (below) portrays Massachusetts, with an inset on the Greater Boston Area. The map is a choropleth map at the census block group level. The map is a bivariate map of two different normalized education attainment levels. The four colors represent the percentage of PhDs in Massachusetts, while the color ramps represent the percentage of the population without a high school diploma. Together the viewer can see where there is a high number of high school dropouts compared to the highest academic achievement level in one map, and draw conclusions based on the grouping. The two maps use different techniques to display the data; however, they both rely on color to make the point.