Lab 9: Intensive Drought Levels in Percentile from the Last Decade in States Vulnerable to Water Access

This lab was interesting because my data was so small it was hard to get the circles to size up and align. Thanks to Matt for getting me through this one!


Levels of Drought in States Vulnerable to Water Accessibility

Panning Map Lab 8

Originally I wanted to do top 20 cities with drought levels, but the data in the drought monitoring website is only state wide, so I tried doing that, but there was really only data for the top 10 cities. Then I found data on areas with high levels of population (>100,000) from the Univ. of Floridas study (2012 study on hydrology) and checked the top 20 cities within this study and their relationship to drought from the drought monitoring website (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/) based on each state. I also used the three driest years within the last decade, and present day. All of the data has been collected from the first week of January within each year, even though you can't see that in the map right now.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

Levels of Drought in States Vulnerable to Water Accessibility

Panning in a Map

So, this map is really pretty, and incredibly interesting, and each dot.... is a person... So you can zoom into each dot and back out. Really interesting to look at. Pretty straight forward once you get to the page, but it's mapping race by color on the legend and the aggregation of the different colors makes for a beautiful map that's representative of so much more.



The Racial Dot Map: One Dot = One Person

Lab 7: Virginia's Population by County

This lab was fun! Didn't take long, and fun to change the colors around. I don't know why  my background color isn't working, but yay!


Here's the link since it's hard to see on the blog:
Homaira's Lab 7 Map

Project Proposal

Sea level rise is one of the main concerns of climate change. With most of the world's population living in coastal areas, this can have a large impact on population displacement. Not only is sea level rise important to the people living in the area but the environment that will change as a result of the impacts flooding will make. These impacts will have an effect on industries, economies, historic sites, and as mentioned earlier population.

Although it would be great to be able to map all of the potentials of sea level rise on the globe, or even the U.S., for my presentation I will be focusing on D.C. Maryland and Virginia. I will be using data from FEMA and the dc.gov website. I will be working on a map I have done previously, that while I was doing it thought it would be so much nicer if it were interactive.

It will be based on several maps I had done of D.C.'s flood areas and the impacts over time for GGS 311 (Intro to GIS), but will be expanding my research to include the metro area, as well as making my map interactive with shape tweens much like the ones we did for our railroad lab along with a timeline moving from 30 years before present --> present --> 50 years from present.

For the presentation I would like to potentially use javascript as it seems like something I would probably be using more in the future, but am not quite sure which would work better for what I am trying to do. Everything that I want to do seems like things we have worked on in Flash so far in the semester, so I have a feeling that's the direction I'll be going but do think it would be nice to get some more experience in Javascript, so if there is a way to do the things listed below in Javascript I would probably try to use Javascript before Flash-

So far the information I have to add is:

-Flood areas (4 zones): These would be shape tweens
-Impervious surfaces: This would be a layer you could turn on/off
-Population Data: This would be a layer you could turn on/off and roll over for more info
-Historical sites: This would be a layer you could turn on/off and roll over for more info
-Major ports: This would be a layer you could turn on/off

If you all think there is anything more I should add or would like for me to incorporate I would be more than happy to try and use it.

this is an example of how the tweens would work with a timeline and a few other layers that would have the on/off features that we used in the State wins for political party Map we did earlier in the semester.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIXC1U8HNo

I do think that my timeline will be different and not just a changing text box in the left corner, but will involve a motion tween. There will be more colors to represent areas of high flood and low flood, this will also be done using the technique from the faux GIS lab with the transparency changing if the layers overlap with an increased transparency of 20% or so from zone-zone.