Lab 7

Thus far lab seven had to be the most time consuming lab that we have been assigned. The reason for this was, yes the lab was mildly difficult, but we also had to make many different copies of our maps to get the different years in place for the animation process. At the end this lab had us make a total of a little under 50 maps. Yikes! The most difficult part of this lab was not making the copies though it was more along the lines of deciding what range each of the map legends should be at.

We also had to come up with the color scheme that we though would look best on our webpages. this part was fun though, getting to decide color schemes lets you take your mind off of the work that you are accomplishing while doing so. So it was fun work. The different types of maps that we made were first the Population Change maps which showed over the course of 106 years, how much (in percent) the population has changed for each county. The next type of map that we created were graduated symbol maps. These let the reader see, with the use of different size shapes (in my case circles), how much the population change has either increased or decreased over the years. The third map that we created was the proportional symbol map. This map lets you see the population of the different counties in Colorado, again by using shapes. The fourth and final map that we created was the dot density map. This map give the reader a chance to see the different population by using dots to represent a number of people in the county.