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Cartography
Map design
Use this for “A map shows each county’s percent change in population, from −12 % to +18 %. Which color scheme suits it?”
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Which color scheme suits this data?
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Ordered data gets ordered lightness; data with a meaningful middle gets two hues; categories get different hues.
Assumptions
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A color scheme should match the data: the order of the colors shows the order of the values.
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Sequential: one hue from light to dark, light for low and dark for high.
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Diverging: two hues meeting at a light middle, such as zero or an average; qualitative: different hues of about the same lightness.
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