GIS 6005: Lab 5

 For this I opted for a horizontal slanted bar graph with the 2010 values on top and the 2018 values on bottom. I wanted to show the full 0 to 100 percentage even though either value don’t exceed 20 percent. As seen by the numbers listed above each bar it can be seen that between 2010 to 2018 the percentages didn’t even increase a full percent. It can be seen from this that even during almost a decade the amount of poor or fair health showing that this issue is staying fairly consistent if not slightly increasing over time. While this display doesn’t convey much more information than that I still find that this display does present the information in a simple but informative manner.

My design for the map was positioned for the choropleth maps to be staged on the left side with the severe housing problems on top and the poor or fair health on the bottom. I found having these stacked on top of each other with their legends fitted in gave the best impression for viewing these together. Then to the right is the accompanying bar graph, description box and pie chart for each variable as well. These are color coated to match with each other with the blue colors being paired with the severe housing problems and the orange coloring being paired with the poor or fair health portion. There is also the scatterplot chart in the bottom right-hand side that shows these variables paired together as we did in deliverable 2. I thought this was important to include for comparison purposes. There is also the bar chart in the center right which shows the average US comparison of the counties from 2010 to 2018. With this there was very little discretion between the years. I chose a very particular way to stack each of these products so that they looked organized, but had a good flow on the page. There was a lot of information to stack in here, so I felt that organization was important to keep from looking too over crowded. I didn’t include many colors for this reason as well as I felt it would crowd out the imaging. In the end I felt simple structuring was the best option and gave this the best look.