Million Dollar Homes

4 Responses to "Million Dollar Homes"

Olivia says:

January 21, 2016 at 11:01 am

1. Map elements (title, scale, legend, north arrow, source) – very descriptive title, scale includes quite a bit of area outside of the study area (i.e. most of Mexico!), legend is good, no north arrow but this program seems hard to alter…I couldn’t find one either!

2. Map extent/area of coverage- as mentioned above, this map includes quite a bit of land that is not part of the analysis.

3. Unit of analysis/aggregation – I don’t know what the units are here! counties?

4. Time period – very clear and very interesting…right after the recession!

5. # of Classes – 5 is a good way to go!

6. Color Scheme – good! purple is very royal!

7. Labels- the state labels make sense, but because your units of analysis are not very small, I am not sure if adding cities is as important. This might be less of an issue if you got rid of the roads…they don’t really help because they don’t directly relate to your topic.

8. Patterns/Trends- clear and interesting! What’s up with Colorado?!

Nice work, cool topic!
David Rhodes says:

January 21, 2016 at 11:04 am

1.The title, legend and source are all easy to find! PolicyMap lacks a north arrow and scale but other than that, it looks great.
2. The map covers the entire continental United States, I only wish it had Hawaii and Alaska included too!
3. Used percentage as a means of measurement and analysis.
4. It is in 2013 as stated on the legend.
5. There are 6 different classes.
6. The color scheme includes 4 different shades of purple and 2 shades of grey.
7. The major capital cities are labeled as well as the name of each state.
8. There is a pattern of million dollar homes located close to the coasts and in Colorado close .
9. I also like the explanation of how the information was gathered and the criteria that was listed on the top of the map!

Overall, great work Maggie!
Theo Miesse says:

January 21, 2016 at 11:08 am

Your map had a informational title and the legend was very clear. There is no north arrow but the direction of the map is pretty obvious since the map is zoomed out enough. The map covers the 48 lower US states well, and you can see a small part of Alaska in the top left corner. The time period (2009-2013) was clear in the title of the map. The color scheme was visually pleasing and fairly easy to read, although it was a little difficult to see the state lines between some states. Since there is no zoom function since it’s a screenshot, it was a little hard to see the colors of the states in the northeast since the state labels were partially covering the map, but I understand that in the site that wouldn’t be a problem!
Kimberley Browne says:

January 22, 2016 at 10:24 am

Hi:
This is a great map and a great exercise! I have a few comments …

I think #3 unit of analysis/aggregation is counties …

I think what makes this map VERY MISLEADING is the number of classes – 6 … and the fact that the highest class (darkest purple) is something like 2.5% and above. So basically, there really aren’t very many ppl with million dollar homes. And most of the million dollar homes are in Colorado and California. This map ESPECIALLY tells us the importance of the number of class breaks and how the classes are made.

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