Interactive California Unemployment Map

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by kqr2 • 17 years ago

29 7 17 years ago

jwilliams• 17 years ago

Clever - but the transition between the colours is a bit deceptive.

At different points different areas will snap from "dark green" to "light red" - which is really only an incremental change on the scale, but looks very stark as a transition.

sidsavara• 17 years ago

Agreed, it really should be something like

* Dark greed good

* Light green not so good

* Light Red Bad

* Dark Red really bad

indiejade• 17 years ago

"dark greed" != good

(sorry! could not resist)

Such an odd distribution of 21 - 30 % unemployment counties. I guess if California were an island, living in a "landlocked" county would mean especially bad news.

shellerik• 17 years ago

The seasonal changes are interesting. More work in the valley during the summer. More work at the ski areas in the winter.

kennyroo• 17 years ago

I agree that the color choices aren't great, but the simplicity of the design is quite nice. (So many of them end up being Flashy nightmares.) I'd like to see more info graphics like this one, which communicate trends in a clear new way.

critic• 17 years ago

What do they do just north of SF?

emmett• 17 years ago

Mostly farmland, scattered small towns. A lot of wineries and grape farms. World class restaurants, a lot of tourism.

Interactive California Unemployment Map

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