{"id":725,"date":"2020-04-05T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2020-04-05T17:28:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:28:45","slug":"geteachs-spring-cleaning-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geteach.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/05\/geteachs-spring-cleaning-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"GeTeach’s Spring Cleaning – 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Left Canvas Electricity – Production
Right Canvas Electricity Consumption <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

GeTeach.com<\/a> had a little spring cleaning this past week. The CIA World Factbook<\/a>, along with UN\u2019s Human Development Index<\/a>, data was updated. As always, this biggest change looks to be Net Migration for Syria (Human Geography -> Demographics<\/em>). Five years ago, there was a large negative flow out of Syria; now there is a relatively large inflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Net Migration – geteach.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There are now over 190 map layers in geteach.com<\/a>. New layers include percentage of Improved Sanitation<\/em> (Human Geography -> Society<\/em>), percent of population working in Agriculture\/Mining<\/em>, Industry<\/em>, and Service<\/em> (Human Geography -> Economy<\/em>), and updated Population Density<\/em> map (Human Geography -> Population Density<\/em>), and Median Age<\/em> (Human Geography -> Demographic<\/em>s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left Canvas Agriculture\/Mining (% of labor)
Right Canvas Service (% of labor)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In addition to new data, most of the thematic maps have new color gradients. Therefore, the maps, along with the legends, should be easier to process with new, more \u201cmodern\u201d, colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left Canvas Electricity – Renewable Resources (% of capacity)
Right Canvas Electricity – Nonrenewable Resources (% of capacity)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The most immediate impact on my classes will be the addition of population pyramids located with Median Age<\/em>, Total Dependency Ratio<\/em>, Youth Dependency Ratio,<\/em> and Elderly Dependency Ratio<\/em> within the Demographic dataset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These 2018 population pyramids are being served from a CIA Factbook host, so hopefully the agency does not change there urls, but having population pyramids in the site is a dream come true for my own teaching and learning; considering much of the course I teach is based on the unequal distribution of goods, services, and people across Earth\u2019s service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left Canvas Total Dependency Ratio
Right Canvas Median Age<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Another change worth mentioning is the inclusion of a small source\/credit tag under legends. Geteach.com<\/a> has always had a source\/credit in the description box associated with each layer, but I was never comfortable with users have to click the \u201cI\u201d icon at the top right of each canvas to see the source of the map or data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left Canvas Human Development Index 2000
Right Canvas Human Development Index 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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