Week 8: Dot Map Assignment

This is a dot distribution map of the available housing units in Florida counties. The source of this information was the US Census 2000 data from Census Table GCT-PH1, Population, Housing Units, Area and Density: 2000. Although I had calculated the Housing Density and Population Density from this data set, I determined that it would be most appropriate to use the raw data for housing unit numbers and to place the dots in inhabitable areas (as directed by the course materials). By using the raw data and proper placement of the dots, the "housing density" is summarized by the resulting density of dots in the inhabitable regions of each county. Other presentations of the data might want to use the inhabitablt area of a county when calculating the housing density or the population density. This assignment introduced me to yet another type of map that has significant application value for certain types of data presentation. :) ...I liked it! OOPS, just realized I forgot to put my name and data on it...will update later.