From crime rates to forest fires, it is now common to represent the geographical distribution of a variable of interest by
coloring a map in proportion to its magnitude.
There's also
a color map in the sidebar that lets you gauge at a glance whether the markets are green or red.
Not exact matches
Gesturing toward a
color - coded
map in his office that plans out the next several years, he argues that the company is poised for success.
In maps created from the new data, it's possible to see the brightness and
color of the stars, their density, and even the interstellar dust that fills the galaxy.
On the wall of my Newsweek office, I kept a large
map,
in a mosaic of
colors, of the United States.
A good piece of historical writing is a picture, not a
map; a living body, not a diagram; a full - length portrait
in color, not a list of dimensions or a thumbnail description.
and standing way too excitedly
in the school supply aisle,
mapping out exactly which
color binder I would use for each class.
storyCOLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY EDDIE ADAMS Kalsu is one of 58,226 servicemen killed or missing
in action who are honored at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
COLOR PHOTO: GARY WATROUS (RIPCORD)
COLOR PHOTO: COURTESY OF JAN KALSU - MCLAUCHLIN ONE OF THE GUYS When helicopters delivered ammo to Ripcord, Kalsu braved enemy fire to unload the heavy shells with his grunts.TWO
COLOR MAPS: STEVE STANKIEWICZ (
MAP)
COLOR PHOTO: GREG FOSTER (MURAL) FOLLOW THE LEADER As team captain, Kalsu (77, left and below) helped Oklahoma go 10 - 1, winning the Orange Bowl, for which he and other»67 Sooners are commemorated
in a mural at the university.B / W PHOTO: RICH CLARKSONB / W PHOTO: (C) 2001, THE OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING COMPANY MEMENTOS For Jan, Jill and Bob Jr. (
in»70 and today), Bob's Army medals were no substitute for a husband and a father.
The second
map displays which team has the greater number of Facebook likes
in each state; the states are
color - coded to indicate which school has the most official likes on their team page
in that state.
Nap
maps are available
in a wide range of sizes,
colors, and materials.
From his study
in Alexandria, Ptolemy assigned coordinates of latitude and longitude to 8,000 geographic locations, compiling the information into his Geographia, an atlas of world geography that included
colored maps depicting regions of the then - known world.
Subtle differences
in the genes of more than 2,000 people
in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland reveal 17 distinct groups, represented by different symbols and
colors on the
map.
In the figure, measurements of the strength of mantle flow are shown along with the
colored map of seismic wave speed at 195 kilometers (121 miles) beneath the Earth's surface, under the North American tectonic plate.
In 1879 Sir Alfred Kempe published a proof of the four -
color map theorem.
The figure illustrates a sound wave passing across an integrated optical waveguide, overlaid with a
color map of the light field
in it.
Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration
map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer
in 2005,
color - codes the various legs of their trek: light - blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return.
But
in recent years, scientists have developed high - tech methods to
map the chemical traces of soft tissues
in the rocks surrounding fossils, which
in turn have helped them visualize the remains of pigments — almost literally bringing prehistoric
colors back to life.
The infrared auroras show up
in green
in this false -
color composite from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, stitched together from 65 individual observations taken by the probe's Visual and Infrared
Mapping Spectrometer
in 2008.
Researchers analyzed the genomes of 16 related orange and white tigers
in captivity, fully
mapping those of the three parent tigers to show that a mutation
in one pigment gene called SLC45A2 is at play — the very same gene that drives lighter
coloring in people of European ancestry, chickens, and some mice.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is an amazing project:
map out the positions and
colors of objects
in the sky to high precision.
The new study, published this month
in the journal The Leading Edge, provides a
color - coded
map of the 75,000 - square mile region that identifies those potential oil and gas development sites that would be would be most likely to trigger an earthquake associated with fluid injection.
Collaborating with researchers from Canada, Europe, Japan, and,
in the United States, the University of Texas, the brain atlas team has scanned 450 «normal» brains and used hundreds of thousands of images taken of 7,000 people around the world to compile three - dimensional
color maps of the brain.
The inset graph shows the surge height (
in meters) at the shore
in Sandy Hook, N.J., next to Manhattan, and
color on the
map shows surge height region - wide (scale bar at far right).
«Madder dye extracted from roots was often used to
color textiles and leather
in ancient Egypt, and we see from the chemical
mapping of the portrait that the artist chose to paint the noblewoman's dress with madder lake pigment, thus imitating contemporary practices.»
After this initial
color assignment, the
color information was propagated
in time using the tracking information, thus providing a
color - coded single - cell resolution fate
map.
Unlike images that depict the Red Planet's surface
in terms of elevation alone (bright
colors from white through red to blue), the new
map (muted
colors) breaks the planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other factors.
Here, we have
mapped feather
color patterns
in a Late Jurassic basal paravian theropod dinosaur.
But rather than a monotonously uniform surface homogenized by impact cratering over the eons, the first up - close look at the asteroid reveals a full palette of mineral «
colors» (
mapped here
in false
color reflecting the wide range of rock compositions).
The results of this matching exercise are astoundingly data - rich
maps — they look like quilts of nested,
color - coded squares of different sizes — that specify the likelihood of any two segments of a chromosome (or even two segments of an entire genome) to be physically close to one another
in the nucleus.
The colorized mosaic from the visual and infrared
mapping spectrometer, which
maps infrared
colors onto the visible -
color spectrum, reveals differences
in the composition of material around the lakes.
These defects caused the lattice to locally compress or stretch out, as seen
in the
colored strain «
maps» on the computer screen.
CHROMATIC PINCUSHION GRID Here the neon
color spreading produces a rectilinear grid of north - south and east - west streets on the
map — but only
in the periphery of your vision.
This
map shows all stressed watersheds
in the continental United States (1999 - 2007), with
color indicating increasing levels of stress, from light green to red.
As
in previous studies, subjects were put inside a PET scanner and shown a slide with
color rectangles, and their brain activity was
mapped.
As
in the previous studies, subjects were put inside a PET scanner, shown a slide with
color rectangles, and their brain activity was
mapped.
The new
mapping system shows different storm surge water levels
in varying
colors.
Everything about the
maps from the
colors, backgrounds and legends were tested
in focus groups, Rhome said.
Gene expression changes gradually at each stage of treatment, as illustrated by the
color changes
in this series of heat
maps.
The report uses
colored heat
maps to represent the variety of species
in a given area — warmer
colors indicating greater diversity — and are based on the distribution of more than 1,000 fish, crayfish and mussel species
in almost 300 watersheds spanning 11 states.
The researchers are able to achieve a high level of compression through what they call «skin
mapping» algorithms that can analyze pixel
color to distinguish a person's face and hands
in an image.
The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create
color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.
In her global
maps of Europa, Callisto and Ganymede, the
color gradient represents the surface temperature — blue means colder and therefore, presumably a more reflectively surface (higher albedo).
Dr. Lavery presenter the AO Prize Lecture entitled «Advances
in remote inference of physical and biological parameters using acoustic scattering techniques:
Mapping the ocean
in broadband «
color».»
In this
map, white and red
colors denote areas of higher gravity, while blue indicates lower gravity regions.
By precisely measuring the changes
in the brightness and
color of these sources as they rotate, we can explore their surface brightness distributions, thus creating rough
maps of their cloud cover and temperature distributions.
Right visual: a B - I
color index
map showing the outer ring (
in blue) and diffuse inner ring (
in light green).
Scientists then process these images by
mapping each light emission to a different
color in order to create the image you're seeing.
We focus spectroscopic efforts on under - sampled regions of galaxy
color space identified
in previous work
in order to minimize the number of spectroscopic redshifts needed to
map the
color - redshift relation to the required accuracy.
So we're able to produce a geographic
map that is
colored in brown and blue to represent areas of low and high migration.
The blue
color shows radioactive material
mapped in high - energy X-rays using NuSTAR.