Professional Geographer » flash map http://drjill.net more than mere place names Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:00:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Slate’s Interactive Map of Vanishing Employment Across the Country http://drjill.net/2010/01/slates-interactive-map-of-vanishing-employment-across-the-country/ http://drjill.net/2010/01/slates-interactive-map-of-vanishing-employment-across-the-country/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:08:05 +0000 drjill http://drjill.net/?p=651 Interactive Unemployment Map
In their Dec. 30, 2009 post, Slate poises the question “When Did Your County’s Jobs Disappear?” with a nicely done interactive map and timeline. Besides painting a dismal picture of the ongoing state of U.S. unemployment, this map does an equally fine job of integrating space, time, and demographic data.

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Beautiful example of interactivity – clean map interface and intuitive design.

This map was created at the UW-Madison Cartography Lab by Rob Roth, Andy Woodruff, Joel Przybylowski under the supervision of Professor Bill Cronon and Professor Mark Harrower. Melanie McCalmont assisted with info window text and image production. Production: May-November 2006

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