About this Page:
Coming up with random variables to write and illustrate is proving to be a challenge. At first, I want to only find data about interesting things, especially stuff that students would enjoy, i.e. the number of people who wear Air Jordans in each state, how people meet their mortality in different parts of the world, and the amount of vending machines per square km in Tokyo. But then you realize that your maps are supposed to serve a greater purpose of relaying “useful” information to the reader that they will end up taking with them to a an exam. I have a crazy imagination and being creative is my M.O., but like all else, there is a time and place.
And so, this page you get locations of hospitals in a dot-density map. The main idea for these three maps was to illustrate how looking at a variable from the wrong scale is inappropriate. I have to admit, the first map, the data is completely made up, though if you were keen to zoom in, they are all in-fact, little H’s in a size .5 font. For the British Isles, I used Google Maps to tell me where the NHS hospitals are. Only that that scale would the data start popping up for me, which actually was a bit frustrating, but someone at Google also understands the importance of data simplification on maps. For the last map of London, I found a map of of NHS hospitals and did the artwork in Autodesk Sketchbook. I had to splice all of the sections of London together, but that was the most difficult part.
Yeah! Fun with maps. Have a good day.
