Proportional Circle Map

This map portrays wine consumption in Europe for the year 2005 using proportional circles. The map was created in ArcView and then brought into Adobe Illustrator for editing and the addition of the proportional circles. They were sized using standard methods for circle size using the formula: symbol size= (max symbol size) * (value/max value). There were 5 classifications based on the grouping of consumption in 5 groups in a rough natural break format. There was a thought to add country names but the map was already busy. Maybe a second inset map could have been added to identify the countries.

GrayScale Population Change Map

This is a grayscale map of the change in US population from the 1990 to 2000 US Census.
Population change was calculated from raw population totals for 1990 and 2000 census. These were then categorized by US Census division and then averaged using all states in each division. The 9 divisions were then converted into 5 roughly equal intervals. Thus allowing for easy comprehension of the map.
The map was created in Adobe Illustrator using the previously posted population change map created using a provided shapefile. All colors were removed first then gray scale added to create the map to allow for a correct consistent shading of each interval.
Intervals are comprised of two US Census divisions which have a similar percent change (within 1 or 2 percentage points) except for the final one which has one large division. This avoids the excessive clutter of each division having its own interval.

Chloropleth Map

This is a map of population change for the United States including Alaska and Hawaii.
The North American Lambert Conformal Conic projection used was for a couple of reasons. First, this projection generally preserves shape and area which is what this map is trying to convey being a chloropleth map which shows the visual impact of population change by state. Also, the projection works well for the North American continent as Alaska appears to be roughly 2.5 times the size of Texas which is close to the true areal difference between the two states.
Layout seemed balanced but the scale of Alaska and Hawaii could have been changed so as to fit them closer to the continental United States. If this was done then all states should have been re-sized based on population change weighted to total population of each state thus revealing the true impact of population change for each state and the country as a whole.

Map Composition

Map of the Hispanic percentage of population in the southern half of Florida with an arrangement of various provided map items.