Scale of Analysis

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2020. (See Chart) *Careful!

Average College Participation Rates in 2020. (See chart)

A criminologist investigates crime patterns across urban areas within the United States.

A climate scientist calculates the average rise in sea level across all coastlines due to melting glaciers.

Title: Life Expectancy, 2021. (See Map)

A historian compares the interactions between the ancient civilizations of Persia and Greece.

A U.S. official from the Department of Education investigates individual school performance across the 50 states.

A team of architects is asked to design an efficient public transportation system for a metropolitan area.

An urban planner is designing a park. When creating green spaces for a neighborhood, the scale of analysis is:

There is an outbreak of a contagious disease within a rural area. An epidemiologist needs to find its epicenter.

A political scientist analyzes voting patterns of a neighborhood.

A geologist is investigating seismic activity along a tectonic plate that spans North and South America.

An urban planner is tasked with finding a new location for an expansion soccer team.

Literate and Illiterate Population, World. (See chart)

Average Life Expectancy for the world from 1770 to 2021. (See Chart)

An environmental scientist is comparing the average annual air quality of Beijing compared to Tokyo.

The population of humans on planet Earth is 8,045,311,447.

A transportation engineer conducts a landscape analysis to compare the best state routes between Texas and California.

A linguist who collects language samples across large areas of Australia to record different dialects & accents.

A market research analyst examines the purchasing habits of consumers to potentially open a new store downtown.

A real estate developer uses GIS and cadastral maps to determine where a new residential site should be.

A sociologist surveys residents of a neighborhood to understand its changes in attitudes over time.

A zoologist's field observations on animal migration from Asia to Europe.

Demographers use policy documents of reported births across prefectures in Japan to study attitudes toward family size.

An economist compares monthly imports and exports between the United States, China, and the U.K.

This cartogram map illustrates the difference in total population size. (See map)

A heat map illustrates the transition of linguistic isolines between the U.S. South and the Midwest. (See map)