The wood and the trees - The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure - page 245

The Changing Distribution of
Voting, Housing, Employment
and Industrial Compositions
in Britain, 1983-1987.

Relative Social Indicators

Increasing

Decreasing

% Services Employees

% Electorate Voting
% Adult Employment

£ Mean Housing Price

Other Parties

Direction
of Voting
Swing

Labour Conservative

Facial features indicate
the social & economic
changes in the constit-
uencies, colour shows
the shift in the vote
between the
parties.

Figure 8.12 Relative shifts in the political vote overlay the other changes.
Croydon North West is upset and Taunton is none too happy, while Aberdeen
South has become most distressed. Here we can see many things at a glance and
quickly estimate their relative importance - is a particular relationship a general
tendency or an isolated case? This image is of the colour and reaction to change.