California Sunshine

2 Responses to "California Sunshine"

Marissa Parker says:

January 21, 2016 at 11:04 am

This is an interesting map, Thys! The color choice is misleading–most of the state is black which might make one think that there is very little sunshine when in fact the opposite is true. The legend is also quite misleading as the sunshine percent breakpoints are very small, except for the largest category which includes a very large range (and therefore includes most of the CA counties). I wonder if this was automatic in the program (perhaps most states fall within these small categories and CA is an exception) or if this was your choice is displaying a particular propaganda?
The yellow outline allows California to stand out and the title of “Sunshine State” really gets at the purpose of the map. I would be interested to see who produced this data and how.
Matthew Celona says:

January 21, 2016 at 11:08 am

This map looks great. I really like how you focused on the one state of California and outlined the border of the state in yellow so it is easily identifiable. Here are some comments:

1. Has a title, scale, legend, and north arrow but not identifiable source.
2. Focuses on California specifically and does a great job outlining the border of California, making it significantly easier to focus on just that one state.
3. Analyzing the percent of possible sunshine by county, specifically in California. The unit of sunshine can be seen in the map legend in the top right hand corner.
4. Time period can be seen in the legend as 2015.
5. Five potential classes in the legend.
6 Good color scheme that starts with a very light color and transitions to a very dark color which makes it easy to distinguish between areas. Because the map is narrowed down to mainly just California, you really just see one dark color. But looking at the legend tells me that if the map were bigger, I think the color scheme is well designed to make it easy to distinguish between different regions.
7. Labels by whole state.
8. Looking specifically at California, you can see that there is a much smaller chance of possible sunshine in the northwestern part of California.

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