For my map project I would like to assist the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and work with their City of Richmond poverty maps. After getting in contact with Olivia Mobayed, I looked through a large number of their maps in order to pick a map to help recreate. I have found a map titled “Black Population and Richmond Poverty Rate, 2014”. I chose this map specifically because I am interested in how race interacts with overall poverty in Richmond. Furthermore, the dots that represent the black population who are in poverty are red and are layered on top of a map that uses shades of red to show the levels of poverty in the different regions of Richmond. This map is difficult to read due to the similarity of the colors representing different data that is overlaid on top of each other. I am hoping to create a new map with this data to display the data in a more revealing manner.
