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Atlas supplement to the 1972 County and City Data Book

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A series of maps presenting the spatial distribution of the tabular data from the 1972 County and City Data Book is discussed. Using an automated mapping procedure developed on a minicomputer by two non-computer scientists, 196 choropleth maps of county-level data for the State of Washington were prepared. The maps provide governmental decision-makers and planners a means to quickly comprehend patterns in the data that are not readily noticeable in the tabular presentation of the data.

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        cover image ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
        ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics  Volume 14, Issue 3
        July 1980
        327 pages
        ISSN:0097-8930
        DOI:10.1145/965105
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