Mapping Swiss Inequality

The Swiss broadcaster Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) has released an interactive map to exhibit the Unequal Distribution of Income inwards Switzerland. The broadcaster uses an interactive bivariate choropleth map to visualize both average incomes as well as income inequality across Switzerland.

Bivariate choropleth maps exhibit 2 variables at once. Therefore sometimes they tin survive a piffling hard to read. The 2 variables visualized on the SRF map are average incomes as well as income inequality. Here is what the colors represent:

• Purple: areas alongside a high average income precisely a large gap betwixt the depression as well as high earners
• Red: areas alongside a depression income as well as a large gap betwixt depression as well as high earners
• Grey: areas alongside a depression income as well as a pocket-sized gap betwixt depression as well as high earners
• Blue: areas alongside a high income as well as pocket-sized gap betwixt depression as well as high earners.

If you lot all the same detect this likewise confusing you lot tin uncomplicated hover over an private canton on the interactive map to sentiment the score of income inequality (expressed equally a Gini coefficient score) as well as the average income.

According to the SRF analysis of the map areas alongside an average depression income as well as depression inequality (grey) are frequently establish inwards rural areas. Areas alongside a depression average income as well as high inequality (red) are frequently establish inwards the areas of the reason alongside high levels of tourism.

If you lot are interested inwards learning to a greater extent than nearly bivariate choropleth maps as well as how to brand them as well as therefore a expert house to showtime is Joshua Stevens' Bivariate Choropleth Maps: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 How-to Guide. Joushua's direct looks at the concept of making bivariate maps rather than furnish a method for creating them alongside a specific tool.

If you lot desire to know how the bivariate choropleth map inwards a higher house was made as well as how you lot tin brand your ain as well as therefore you lot mightiness similar Bivariate Maps alongside ggplot as well as sf. In this how-to direct Timo Grossenbacher as well as Angelo Zehr explicate how the Unequal Distribution of Income inwards Switzerland map was made as well as furnish a step-by-step direct to creating the map.