unhcr / dataviz-population-change

Interactive data visualisation in d3.js of historic refugee data
http://unhcr.github.io/dataviz-population-change
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The map should use proportional symbol - not choropleth #67

Open Edouard-Legoupil opened 7 years ago

Edouard-Legoupil commented 7 years ago

Hi For the map -- using an absolute measurement in a choropleth is a semiologic error - (unless it would be a choropleth with polygons of a similar size) -

Either we convert the value to be displayed to a % of change in comparison of previous year - the it's a ratio and we can keep a choropleth -

or better we keep absolute number of persons increase/decrease and use proportional symbols with a color code to encode the relative percentage of the increase in comparison with the existing population

curran commented 7 years ago

Interesting thoughts on this.

Edouard-Legoupil commented 7 years ago

http://axismaps.github.io/thematic-cartography/articles/choropleth.html

curran commented 7 years ago

Really nice article!