For my map I looked at school aged children, 7-13 years old, that were in school in 1920. This was interesting to look at because this is a time where public school began to become major. However there are some challenges with the data set.
For my map I am looking at North Carolina, but other states are included on the map. I unfortunately could not specifically focus my data set on North Carolina. But looking at the data, which has the amount of children in school from aged 7-13, based on census data I'm assuming. It seems that places with more population had more children in school. More rural areas do not seem to have as many children, I am assuming as they may have been farming or working.
Chapter 11 of How to Lie with Maps by Monmonier explores that we need more than one data set aggregated to understand data fully. I think that this is seen here. It is not much without more than one data set. I thought that I had more than one table, but I guess I did not. It make my data look very basic and you do not really get many answers when looking at it. I also would've loved to go further at race, which does not seem to appear in the data.
I had similar issues with trying to aggregate my data with other data sets to understand it fully. I might have gotten close, but I was using different formulas to try and push myself to the answer and I'll need to research more on how to get that done. If I figure it out, I'll let you know!
ReplyDeleteTiana, your new map is wonderful. Your file and graphic selection provide effective visualization of the information you are presenting. Well Done.
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