I used European Lambert Conformal Conic as my projection and placed a 75% opacity on the proportional symbols. The legend is linear to enhance viewer proportional awareness.

I thought about placing some kind of symbol to show non-wine countries... but the more I looked at symbols... the more I thought it reversed the viewers focus. If I put a "non-wine" consumption symbol down.... I thought the map switched the primary focus to who does not consume wine.

This did not look pink yesterday :)

US National Atlas Equal Area was maintained for scale and minimal distortion, I utilized the ColorBrewer site to find the RGB #'s as well. The legend is horizantal with vaules increasing left to right. I used 5 equal interval classes as directed in the directions.

I chose the US National Atlas Equal Area, and a 5 class natural breaks on bipolar data. I thought the natural dividing point of the bipolar data was with the Nevada Outlier. I chose a 5 class diverging spectral color scheme, altering my colors per Color Brewer rgb #'s, to concentrate the viewer on the greatest "change" at the end classes.

I had labled the % on the states... but in the end it looked more distracting then aiding... It looked okay before I tweeked my color scheme then the label with a small halo looked like I was standing to far from the eye chart.

Map Composition - Lab 4 : South Florida Hispanic Population

Florida Keys Typography Lab