Choropleth Scales
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Last edited May 12, 2016
Created on Mar 26, 2015
A choropleth map of US county unemployment rates from 2008 uses a quantize scale with a nine-color ColorBrewer scheme. The page includes radio buttons to switch between blue and rainbow palettes, or between quantize and linear scales, both producing a vertical color legend. Built with D3 v3, it uses `d3.geo.albersUsa`, `topojson`, SVG paths, and `d3.legend.color` to render the map and legends. The quantize scale maps rates from 0 to 15% into discrete bins, while the linear scale uses a gradient fill for continuous color.
AI-generated descriptionThis choropleth encodes unemployment rates from 2008 with a quantize scale ranging from 0 to 15%. A threshold scale is a useful alternative for coloring arbitrary ranges.