Final Map Not Done - Review Only

Super Typhoon

Map of Super Typhoon Haiyan that depicts the population density of the areas it hit as well as the maximum wind speeds of the typhoon for each area. The winds over the main islands of the Philippines seems to have been extremely high and definitely caused some damages.

http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-super-typhoon-haiyan-path-2013-11

Bivariate Map

Bivariate map showing poverty levels and levels of insufficient access to hygienic services in Nicaragua. I think the most interesting thing about this map is that some of the areas with the highest levels of lacking access are areas that have no data on income. As I am not familiar with Nicaragua I can only speculate as to what that reason may be. I chose this map because of the interesting disparity between income and hygienic services in some areas

http://andersolson.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/multivariatemap1.jpg

Lab 10

Lab #9

Final Project

For my final project I am looking to map all major terrorist attacks by Al Qa'ida from 1992 - 2011. The interest in the topic stems from my goal to work in the intelligence community utilizing GIS and Remote Sensing and a good place to start seemed to be practicing data synthesis with map making. 

The map is mainly to be a general informative map and as such it does not have a particular audience but if one does have to be specified it would be for those who work in the intelligence community as visualization to the data to help spot trends or a lack thereof. 

I envision the map to be a graduated symbol map but that may change. 

The scope of the map is on a global scale.

The Source will be the global terrorism database provided by the University of Maryland.
http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd

The base map will likely be exported from Arc Map but I may use an already existing illustrator base map if I can find one.

The production will begin with collecting and filtering the data. All subsequent steps will be related to applying the data to the base map

The biggest challenge will likely be defining what constitutes a major terrorist event with deciding how exactly I want to map the phenomena a close second.

 
This is an example of a map that displays the same theme that I want to map although I feel like it is not well done.

Dot Density

Dot density map that shows the location of commercial wireless towers across the U.S. I chose this map because it is interesting to see that a majority of the towers reside on the eastern portion of the U.S.

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/wireless.html