{"id":615,"date":"2016-03-28T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps19\/?p=43"},"modified":"2016-03-28T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:09:57","slug":"final-map-life-expectancy-in-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/2016\/03\/28\/final-map-life-expectancy-in-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Map \u2013 Life Expectancy in Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps19\/files\/2016\/03\/Map4.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps19\/files\/2016\/03\/Map4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Map4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This map aims to highlight the disparity of life expectancy within a 5 mile radius of Richmond. \u00a0The legend shows the overall averages of each county within Richmond, with red being the shortest life spans because it stands out. \u00a0However, I wanted to show\u00a0the exact life expectancies in areas that many Richmond students would recognize, and especially highlight the greatest and lowest life expectancy towns. \u00a0&#8220;The standout spot is Gilpin Court, a large public housing project, where life expectancy is just 63, on par with Haiti.&#8221; \u00a0A few Universities, the James River, and main roads were also added to this map to give it context and help the reader easily identify areas. \u00a0My hope \u00a0is that this map helps to facilitate conversation about why there is such a gap in life expectancy, the various factors that influence life expectancies, and how to address those factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map aims to highlight the disparity of life expectancy within a 5 mile radius of Richmond. \u00a0The legend shows the overall averages of each county within Richmond, with red being the shortest life spans because it stands out. \u00a0However, I wanted t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41304,29805],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-6","category-spring-2016","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}