Aliyyah's Map Class

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Transit map

http://www.city-data.com/forum/city-vs-city/607030-atlanta-vs-washington-d-c.html

A transit map is a topological map used to illustrate the routes and stations within a public transport system. This is a transit map of the subway lines in Washington DC.

Road atlas

http://www.mapshop.com/Atlas/US_Road/large-print-US-Road-atlas.asp

A road atlas is a map of streets, roads, highways etc. of a given location. This road atlas is a section of Ohio.

Dymaxion map

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/walke541/architecture/2008/02/

The Dymaxion map also known as the Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of a polyhedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. It depicts the earth's continents as "one island." The way its arranged disrupts the map only in order to preserve shapes and sizes.

Floor plan

http://greatbaycondos.com/floor-plans

A floor plan is an aerial view of each level of a building. It usually shows what each room on each floor of a building looks like and the square footage. this one is a floor plan of a condo.

Dasymetric map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasymetric_map

A dasymetric map is a type of thematic map, that uses areal symbols to spatially classify volumetric data. this one shows climate and plant hardiness zones in north america.

Range graded proportional circle map

http://gis.depaul.edu/shwang/teaching/geo381/LN10.htm

A range graded proportional circle map is a proportional circle map that shows the circles in relation to ranges of data. this one shows course offerings in cartography at different universities and colleges in different states .

Correlation matrix

http://blogs.fxstreet.com/fxbootcamp/2009/11/
"The correlation matrix of n random variables X₁, ..., X_n is the n × n matrix whose i,j entry is corr(X_i, X_j)." This correlation matrix is on the currency of different countries.

Similarity matrix

http://cgi.mtc.sri.com/Cluster-Lab/

A similarity matrix is a matrix of scores which show the similarity between two data points. "This graph shows the similarities in between 32 profiles of the Malware infection.

Stem and leaf plot

http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/stem-and-leaf-plot.html

"A stem and leaf plot is where each data value is split into a "leaf" (usually the last digit) and a "stem" (the other digits). The "stem" values are listed down, and the "leaf" values go right (or left) from the stem values."

This is an example of what one would look like.

box plots

http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/stats/boxplot.html

a box plot is a way of graphically depicting groups of numerical data through their five-number summaries: sample minimum, lower quartile (Q1), median (Q2), upper quartile (Q3) and the sample maximum. this box plot shows car mileage in different countries.

Histogram

http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/histograms.html

a histogram is a graphical representation, showing a visual impression of the distribution of data. It shows an estimate of the probability distribution of a continuous variable. This shows US immigration from northern European countries.

Population profile

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_depopu14b.htm

Apopulation profile is a chart showing the number of people as a function of their ages. this chart shows the population profile of less developed countries in the year 2000

Index value plot

http://www.techmind.org/blog/index.html

An index value plot is a way to show the relativity of all values to an indexed value. Here this graph displays trends in the FTSE stock-market index.

Lorenz Curve

http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch4en/meth4en/gini.html

The Lorenz curve is a graphical representation of the proportionality of a distribution. This graph is just an example of what consists of a Lorenz curve.

Bilateral grap

http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/4997

A bilateral graph displays increases on one side of a zero line and a decreases on the other side. Bilateral graphs are used to show both the positive and negative values of data. This map displays selected countries’ bilateral trade balance with China by % of each country’s GDP.