Lab 9 was to remake our choropleth map to include color. I was able to take advantage of this because my data has a "qualitiative" division as well as the quantitiative. Some states never had any Basque settlement, whereas others did (mainly southeastern Idaho and northern Nevada and radiating out from there). Red=No "appreciable" Basque settlement, Green=Yes "appreciable" Basque settlement. So, I colored all states reporting "under 0.01%" in red. For the states that did receive Basque immigration, I used a green color ramp to show how concentrated they were by state. Conveniently, red and green are also the colors of the Basque flag, which I blew up from the previous version. I made various other minor improvements including stealing somebody's Basque-flag clipart. (I also learned that the Nebraska result was a census filing error in 1980, or something like that, giving it several thousand Basques when the state really has almost none; Nebraska should be in red in reality).
I printed a color copy using the lab printer, and it looks pretty different from what I am seeing on the screen. The colors are much brighter/stronger on the printed copy, I suppose because the screens in here are very bright, making the colors look lighter than what they "really are". On paper, the red appears much darker than I wanted it to be. I would definitely find a lighter red if I could get a second shot, because I want to emphasize the green-scale, and not the red. (I wanted to say that the red states are so unimportant to the subject being mapped that they are "off the [green] scale".) Maybe I should have just kept everything on a green scale and made the eastern states a very-light green...
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