A class act

A really nice example of the use of colour in a map here. The image is from a new paper on the relationships between cold weather, influenza and mortality in Nature Climate Change (ht Ed Hawkins).

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The authors have chosen a simple monochrome palette, and the map is clear from any distracting clutter. I guess the only problem is that it is a little difficult to read values directly from the map, but hey, that’s what data tables are for. The idea of a plotted data map (choropleth) is for comparison and to reveal patterns.

Paper:

Ballester, Joan, Xavier Rodó, Jean-Marie Robine, and François Richard Herrmann. “European seasonal mortality and influenza incidence due to winter temperature variability.” Nature Climate Change (2016).

 

 

One comment

  1. James Annan · · Reply

    So one way or another it looks like Scotland rates a big fat zero.

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