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.