Proportional Symbol Mapping

This week involved creating maps that displayed data via proportional symbols, i.e. for each enumeration area that data was presented for on a map, a symbol (a circle, square or possibly an icon of some sort, such as a wine bottle) is displayed with its size proportional to the value of the data point relative to the rest of the data.

Two maps were made, one in ArcMap and one in Illustrator. Illustrator allows a great deal of design control and can take .ai formatted files that were created in ArcMap, thus allowing ArcMap's strengths to be leveraged before going to Illustrator to gain finer design controls. Unfortunately, ArcMap seems to have problems organizing layers in a logical fashion when exporting to .ai files, often mixing up objects in a single layer that have nothing to do with each other.

Wine Consumption in Europe [done in ArcMap]

Wine Consumption in Western Europe [done in Adobe Illustrator