The Oregon Health Authority published data and data visualization concerning Measles detected in the waste water of various Oregon counties over a period of time. I thought it might be helpful to place that data into my cartogram of Oregon counties. There’s a rough pic below, but the webpage/HTML file is – Cartogram of Measles detected in Oregon Counties Wastewater. (I’m updating the file and not the illustration below.)
The waste water testing sometimes resulted in zero detected. On the charts, that is a small blue dot/line on the x-axis. Other times there was no test done, and the x-axis has no additional color. It is disconcerting to see large areas of Oregon not getting tested or the occasional null test elsewhere.
Unlike my earlier Oregon Cartograms, with charts via images, I decided to use Google Charts to draw the graphs and include the data within the web page itself. This will make them much easier to update. I decided not try to hook the charts up to an external data source, as I rather like everything to being somewhat self-contained. I’ll try to update the data every so often. I manually collect the data, so errors may be introduced. You can grab the simple HTML file above and reconfigure to map whatever you like.
