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Statistical Maps: Some Examples
John Fox
May 2001
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A (non-statistical) Chinese map employing a coordinate grid, circa AD 1100. (Source: Tufte, Visual Explanations, p. 14)
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An early data map by Edmond Halley, 1686, showing trade winds and monsoons. (Source: Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, p. 23)
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Charles Joseph Minard’s celebrated 1869 map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign. (Source: Wainer, Visual Revelations, p. 85)
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Minard’s map of French wine exports for 1864. (Source: Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, p. 25)
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John Snow’s 1854 event map of London cholera deaths around the Broad Street water pump. (Source: Wainer, Visual Revelations, p. 61)
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Standard chloropleth maps of U. S. age-adjusted cancer death rates, by country. (Source: Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, p. 17)
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An alternative to the standard chloropleth map: 1980 population density of Tokyo, employing a grid of equal-size squares. (Source: Tufte, Envisioning Information, p. 40)
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Another alternative to the chloropleth map: Birthplaces of 3005 Ming poets, 1368—1644. (Source: Tufte, Envisioning Information, p. 75)
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Abortive alternatives to the standard chloropleth map: A bivariate chloropleth map – male cardiovascular-disease death rates and percentage of households with more than one person per room, by U. S. counties. (Source: Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, p. 153)
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Level plot of residuals from a model fit to numbers of different kinds of livestock in European countries. (Source: Cleveland, Visualizing Data, p. 319)
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Chloropleth and framed-rectangle maps of U. S. murder rates by states. (Source: Cleveland and McGill, “Graphical Perception,” JASA, 1984)