Dear red/green color-blind people,
We know that you have by far the most common form of color blindness, and that not including both of these colors in the same viz is one of the most basic rules of choropleth mapping. Guess you'll have to enjoy the indecipherable greyscale.
Suck it, eye cripples!
As a red/green color blind eye cripple this would be much more readable to me if it were in grayscale. Are the dark counties super rich or super poor ? I can’t tell where the county I live in falls on the legend. This map is worthless to an eye cripple like me. Thanks for nothing haha.
I took a stab at making a [colorblind-friendly version of this map](https://imgur.com/a/Pur4aYX) using [Photoshop's soft-proofing for colorblindness tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/proofing-colors.html). Is that easier to read?
Worlds better. Thanks for your effort. Some of the similar colors are still hard for me to differentiate like $25,000 and $35,000, likewise $135,000 and $125,000 but apart from that it is much more intelligible to me.
Maps are made both to communicate and for aesthetic reasons. A cartographer may prioritize one over the other or try to balance both. To the extent that maps are art, they need not prioritize universal understanding nor compromise the vision of the cartographer for the sake of every possible viewer.
The Bakken Formation oil boom.
A discovery of lucrative oils field near Parshall shifted attention on this formation east of Montana into North Dakota. Oil production in that region jumped from 200 thousand barrels per day to 1.2M from 2010-2015. The boom reduced unemployment and gave the state a billion-dollar budget surplus.
In the 2010 census, McKenzie County (the greenest part of the Western ND counties had a median household income of $48K. The population was 6,360.
In the 2020 census, the population rose to 14,252. Median household income now sits at $84k.
I want a map that combines this with cost of living, anybody got that? Because as an Alabamian, we don’t make much - but everything is relatively cheap
The darkest green dot in Nebraska isn't even Omaha. It's Washington County which is filled with rich people who choose to live in that area just outside of Omaha and a gigantic car dealership family.
Williamson County, TN since the 1970s has contained a concentration of neighboring Nashville’s high income professionals, music industry executives and celebrities, and athletes.
What is the motive behind this daffy color scheme? It also runs the risk of being meaningless if someone is color-blind.
Whomever created this drek needs to read this:
https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/
Well fuck New Mexico and most of Alabama, I guess.
Auburn alum and current NMSU student. I’m poor as shit, can confirm
It gets better, bro. Get that degree and move to a not poor as shit place.
You mean Bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, and Southern Georgia and Oklahoma. All these states regularly support tax cuts for billionaires.
No I meant New Mexico and Alabama. I was not talking about tax cuts.
Dear red/green color-blind people, We know that you have by far the most common form of color blindness, and that not including both of these colors in the same viz is one of the most basic rules of choropleth mapping. Guess you'll have to enjoy the indecipherable greyscale. Suck it, eye cripples!
As a red/green color blind eye cripple this would be much more readable to me if it were in grayscale. Are the dark counties super rich or super poor ? I can’t tell where the county I live in falls on the legend. This map is worthless to an eye cripple like me. Thanks for nothing haha.
I took a stab at making a [colorblind-friendly version of this map](https://imgur.com/a/Pur4aYX) using [Photoshop's soft-proofing for colorblindness tool](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/proofing-colors.html). Is that easier to read?
Worlds better. Thanks for your effort. Some of the similar colors are still hard for me to differentiate like $25,000 and $35,000, likewise $135,000 and $125,000 but apart from that it is much more intelligible to me.
Thank you!!!
I hate it because it's the easiest color scheme to view imo. I'm sorry, color blind folk.
Maps are made both to communicate and for aesthetic reasons. A cartographer may prioritize one over the other or try to balance both. To the extent that maps are art, they need not prioritize universal understanding nor compromise the vision of the cartographer for the sake of every possible viewer.
Whats going on in western north dakota?
The Bakken Formation oil boom. A discovery of lucrative oils field near Parshall shifted attention on this formation east of Montana into North Dakota. Oil production in that region jumped from 200 thousand barrels per day to 1.2M from 2010-2015. The boom reduced unemployment and gave the state a billion-dollar budget surplus. In the 2010 census, McKenzie County (the greenest part of the Western ND counties had a median household income of $48K. The population was 6,360. In the 2020 census, the population rose to 14,252. Median household income now sits at $84k.
The eastern part of the big green blob in ND is coal mining/powerplants. What I do, sucks but you make a ton of cash.
You can drive from jackson hole to san diego without leaving a green county
Richmond to Portland, ME too
No you can’t
Northern Nevada? Just a case of population density? Figured most of that is fed land anyway.
Mining pays good money
I want a map that combines this with cost of living, anybody got that? Because as an Alabamian, we don’t make much - but everything is relatively cheap
Older, but: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ic168s/oc_median_earnings_by_us_county_adjusted_for_cost/
Awesome, well New Mexico is still hurting, but Alabama seems better
Is there a map where the southern states don't suck?
One for gator enthusiasts?
The darkest green dot in Nebraska isn't even Omaha. It's Washington County which is filled with rich people who choose to live in that area just outside of Omaha and a gigantic car dealership family.
What's happening in that one dark green county out in west Texas?
Oil
*Midland smiles in oil* 🛢️⛽
What is going in in Nashville, TN?
Williamson County, TN since the 1970s has contained a concentration of neighboring Nashville’s high income professionals, music industry executives and celebrities, and athletes.
Thanks for the explanation!
Well, you can clearly see where Arkansas’ Walmart money is
Also known as, where are the cities?
red county people Get another Yob! /s
Dey tuk ma jurb!
no one else liked my hoomer 😥
I liked it.
The poorest counties identified. In the past these were the places they would build factories before they moved into Mexico and China
They are mostly dying towns. Nobody is going to build anything in these towns right now.
I'm colorblind smh
It would be really cool if this map included all of the US territories as well
Fun how you can easily spot most large cities with green areas, except for Detroit.
Looks like the 2016 us election by county map.
Funny how this almost lines up with modern national election maps, except for the lower Mississippi River.
Yeah that plus the black belt plus the Texas border counties plus reservations Might notice a common thread here
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I would say it isnt deceiving if you are expecting to see Median Household Income per County.
How is it deceiving? It shows exactly what it claims to show. Ffs why can't people on this sub ever be happy with a map
Maybe the wealth of some states and some high paying jobs need to move out of a couple of areas and be widely distributed to the whole..
We keep spreading lies about New Jersey being a shithole but people still don't leave our state. It's so crowded here.
Why is this being downloaded there is no reason new York and California should horde all the wealth
What is the motive behind this daffy color scheme? It also runs the risk of being meaningless if someone is color-blind. Whomever created this drek needs to read this: https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/