Final Project
For our final project, we were instructed to create a map displaying two thematic datasets also known as a bivariate map. This was very similar to the map we created in week 7 and I expanded upon the skills I learned in that module to create a more visually appealing and coherent map. I chose to work with the first scenario for the objective of my map. I created a map that could be used by the Washington Post to compare mean SAT scores and test participation rates of high school seniors in 2014. Both of these statistics can be compared to state size on a larger scale as I used the United States Albers Equal Area Conic projection. Since this map focuses on the comparison of average test scores to participation percentages, two comparable data presentation types were used. For test scores, I elected to use graduated symbols so that I could separate the data into the same number of classes as the participation percentage variables. These symbols were separated into five class