Smoking, Obesity & Drinking is an Esri storey map which visualizes the rates of 3 preventable wellness gamble factors at the county aeroplane inward the USA. It includes choropleth maps which disclose the rates of smoking, obesity as well as excessive drinking inward every American county. Smoking, Obesity as well as Drinking is likewise a destination lesson inward how the storey map format tin flame hold upwards used to Pb the user past times the mitt through complex visualizations of data.
Smoking, Obesity & Drinking uses bivariate (and trivariate) maps to evidence to examine the relationships betwixt smoking, obesity & excessive drinking. Bivariate maps are used inward the storey map to lay areas where 2 or to a greater extent than of these 3 wellness gamble factors mightiness hold upwards anomalously high (or low). One disadvantage of bivariate maps is that they tin flame hold upwards hard to read. The wider make of colors representing combined values introduces to a greater extent than complexity, peculiarly when compared to to a greater extent than uncomplicated unmarried variable choropleth maps. However the Smoking, Obesity as well as Drinking storey map overcomes whatever confusion that these bivariate maps mightiness crusade past times commencement walking the user through each of the 3 wellness gamble factors individually, each on their ain unmarried variable choropleth maps.
Not alone does Smoking, Obesity & Drinking explore each of these 3 gamble factors separately on its ain choropleth map it likewise singles out as well as highlights those counties inward which these factors are peculiarly prevalent. Therefore when the bivariate maps are introduced the user has already been led through how to read much of the data. The storey map likewise as well as thence proceeds to Pb the user through the anomalous articulation wellness gamble factors revealed past times the bivariate maps themselves.
In its determination Smoking, Obesity & Drinking introduces yet to a greater extent than or less other score of complexity past times attempting to exhibit all 3 wellness factors on 1 trivariate map. To evidence to brand this trivriate map legible 3 foundational color hues are used to stand upwards for each of the 3 wellness gamble factors. Even thence it is even thence nigh impossible to exercise a comprehensible legend inward a 2 dimensional infinite explaining the sum make of values represented past times the mixing of these 3 colors. Smoking, Obesity & Drinking overcomes this terminal work amongst the clever solution of annotating the map itself, explaining to a greater extent than or less of the regional hues revealed on the trivariate map of American preventable wellness risks.
