Student Spotlight: Jennifer Melcher

GIS 5007 Module 5: Choropleth Mapping

GIS5007 Computer Cartography Module 5 tackled the subject of Choropleth Mapping. Choropleth mapping is used to visualize data such as population density, health statistics, or economic statistics using color and shading to represent values throughout a geographic boundary. This module asked students to map population densities along with total wine consumption among European countries.  They chose color schemes, data classification schemes as well as proportional symbols to effectively communicate the data. 

We would like to highlight the excellent work of Jennifer Melcher on this assignment! She is a Graduate Certificate student and an experienced Archaeologist with the UWF Archaeology Institute. 

Jennifer went the extra mile by designing a custom picture symbol with open source resource https://www.svgrepo.com/.  She also took additional steps to customize a color palette with palleton.com to get the look she needed to best represent the data. Jennifer applied her SQL skills to filter records and dynamically adjust the size and color shades of annotation for maximum readability and visual impact.  Melcher's attention to detail and extra efforts on this Module were greatly appreciated and we love the results! 

Click on the map above for a closer look and to read Jennifer Melcher's blot post about this module.  You may also see more about her GIS journey at Jennifer's GIS Blog.