4.1 Topics Covered
- Situate the role of geovisualization within a larger exploratory context
- Appreciate the importance of linking and brushing in exploratory spatial data analysis
- Create commonly used thematic maps
- Change legend colors
- Manipulate the map by zooming, panning, and selection
- Add a background layer (base map) to a thematic map
- Save map classifications as a categorical variable
- Save the map as an image
- Create a custom classification
- Use the project file in
GeoDa
- Map > Quantile Map
- select number of categories
- Map > Natural Breaks Map
- select number of categories
- Map > Equal Intervals Map
- select number of categories
- Map toolbar options
- Map selection
- select all observations in a legend category
- Map options
- Change current map type
- Save Categories
- Save the map as an image
- Change the look of a map
- Make map outlines invisible
- Map > Create New Custom
- Category Editor
- File > Save Project
- saving a custom classification in the project file

Figure 4.1: Maps and Rates | Cartogram | Map Movie | Category Editor