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Let's switch colors to balance lightness between dots amang races

Open Atry opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Currently, the lightness between dots differ according to the race. For example, the color of an asian dot is #FF0000, which is darker than #73B2FF, the color of a white dot. As a result, an area that contains asian dots visually looks more darker than an area of same size and density of white dots.

Let's change the dot color for better visualization.

Atry avatar Aug 02 '20 20:08 Atry

This seems closely related to https://github.com/unorthodox123/RacialDotMap/issues/4 . If I'm reading this right, it also paints them one over another in a certain order, which will also overrepresent Asians. And, moreso, Hispanics.

See this neighborhood in Chelsea, MA. It's 60-90% Hispanic in some blocks (the other map is StatisticalAtlas.com), but you can't tell the 60% from the 90% blocks really because I think the yellow dots are drawn nearly last.

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csciuto avatar Feb 23 '21 01:02 csciuto

Drawing order is extremely important to treat in a balanced (shuffled?) way! Thank you for considering it.

dholstius avatar Feb 23 '21 02:02 dholstius