ASSIGNMENT #4

GEOGRAPHY 118
UCSB SPRING QUARTER 2000
PROFESSOR KEITH C. CLARKE

ASSIGNMENT FOUR: DUE START OF WEEK 9

DORLING CARTOGRAM

SOFTWARE: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

This assignment counts for 16% of your class grade.

You should prepare a cartogram of the state of California for data at the county level. Search the Web or any other source for information on California structured by county. For a cartogram, the data can be ennumeration data such as counts or a ratio, such as a percentage or rate. Suitable data might be population, number of immigrants, residents born out of the state, wine production, agricultural land that is irrigated, employment in the defense industry, whatever is interesting and specific to California.

You can make a contiguous or non-contiguous cartogram. Non-contiguous is the easiest, and you can scale counties up and down using the scale function in Corel. To get a specific area, you could look up the actual land area of the county and calculate how much they need to be scaled to represent your data, relative to one county that will remain fixed at one proportion.

When you are finished, e-mail Teaching Assistant, Matt Rice and let him know that the map is on your web page.

Have fun.

This page last updated 5/20/99 by Keith Clarke kclarke@geog.ucsb.edu.

View a Dorling Cartogram by former student, Kevin Bailey,
and an animated Dorling Cartogram by former student, Ann Ricchiazzi.