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Carbon Emissions and Major Industries in BC

This map depicts the carbon emissions and major industry sectors for each census division in British Columbia, Canada.

The choropleth map represents the carbon dioxide emissions across BC census divisions, for this equal interval classification is used and the data is normalized by population. The weight of each of the five major industry sectors in each pie chart is proportional to the percentage of the working class population involved in those respective industries.

Datasets used in producing the map: Emissions Data and Industry Data.

Official Languages Spoken in Vancouver

This is a choropleth map that depicts the percentage of population in each census tract in the Vancouver area that does not speak neither French nor English. The greater colour saturation corresponds to the greater percentage class with the grey areas depicting no data.

Target Audience: A translation services entrepreneurship.

Variable: Knowledge of official languages: neither English nor French.

Normalization: Variable normalized by population to represent the percent of people within a given area who don’t know any of the official languages.