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‘Why Is’ the United States

• Submitted: November 14th, 2011
• Author: John Nelson, Adam Flink
• Company/Organization: IDV Solutions
• Map Website: http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2011/11/gambrell-maps-why-is-state.html

Description

This Gambrell map plots the top Autocomplete response per state for ‘why is…’ for a zeitgeisty look at folks’ perceptions of the various United States.

Technology Used

Using Google’s Autocomplete feature, ‘why is Alabama’, and so on, typed in -with the top response used to assign the label of each of the United States.  This map uses the autocomplete method to paint in the spirit of the times per state made popular by Dorothy Gambrell, various interrogative prefixing was the idea of Adam Flink here at IDV.  Adobe Fireworks was used to compose the map.