Evaluation of Methods for Classifying Epidemiological Data on Choropleth Maps in Series
Cynthia A. Brewer , Department of Geography , Pennsylvania State University
Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 92(4), 2002, pp. 662-681
Full article (6MB PDF).
Example question booklet from experiment and Appendix with questions organized by task type.
Example map series showing original page format and original color scheme.
Shapefiles and database files for creating maps.
Funding Acknowledgements:
The published research was funded by the National Center for Health Statistics /CDC, Office of Research and Methodology, Project #98-203. Development of this Map Supplement Web site was funded by the Digital Government program of the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9983451, the Quality Graphics for Federal Statistical Summaries project in the GeoVISTA Center at Penn State.
Collaborators:
Jessica J. Dobrowolski prepared this online map supplement. Cory Eicher and Erik Steiner assisted the research reported in the Annals article. Robert Cromley provided code for the minimum boundary error algorithm.
Pickle, L.W., M. Mungiole, G.K. Jones, and A.A. White. 1996. Atlas of United States Mortality. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 209 pp. (PHS 97-1015).
Related Resource:
Many of the maps used in the experiment are based on maps and data from the Atlas of United States Mortality:
Mortality maps from the NCHS atlas may be downloaded from their Web site.