generate-maps

name: generate-maps

description: Regenerate all CZ choropleth maps for the thesis (Frey et al. style)

Generate Maps

Regenerate all commuting-zone choropleth maps used in the thesis. Maps follow

the visual style of Frey, Berger & Chen (2018) "Political Machinery":

borderless CZ polygons, thin state boundary overlays, sequential warm palette

for task displacement, diverging blue-red for ideology.

Arguments

• (no args) — regenerate all 4 standard figures

• election-td — only the 2x2 election-year TD maps

• election-ideo — only the 2x2 election-year ideology maps

• allyears-td — only the 2x4 all-years TD maps (appendix)

• allyears-ideo — only the 2x4 all-years ideology maps (appendix)

• single --year YYYY --var COLNAME — one full-size map

Steps

1. Run the map generation command:

cd /Users/alessandro/Projects/Tesi && python3 -m src.geo_viz <COMMAND>

Where <COMMAND> is one of: all, election-td, election-ideo, allyears-td, allyears-ideo, single --year YYYY --var td_cz.

If no arguments are provided, use all.

2. Report which figures were saved to results/figures/.

3. If the thesis needs recompilation (because figure files changed), run:

cd /Users/alessandro/Projects/Tesi/thesis && tectonic main.tex 2>&1 | tail -5

Output Files

| Command | Output |

|---------|--------|

| election-td | fig_cz_map_td_elections.pdf/.png |

| election-ideo | fig_cz_map_ideo_elections.pdf/.png |

| allyears-td | fig_cz_map_td_all_years.pdf/.png |

| allyears-ideo | fig_cz_map_ideo_all_years.pdf/.png |

| single | fig_cz_map_{var}_{year}.pdf/.png |

Dependencies

• src/geo_viz.py — MapEngine class

• data/reference/cz_boundaries.geojson — CZ polygons (722 CZs, Albers projection)

• data/reference/state_boundaries.geojson — State outlines (49 states)

• results/panels/cz_analysis_panel.csv — CZ-level panel data