5 thoughts on “The benefit of the continuous color scale

    • Ian:

      We’ve been using R base graphics, taking a lot of care to get the details how we like them. Our soon-to-be-released mrp package will have pretty U.S. maps by state as a default option.

  1. Isn’t using a continuous color scale to represent continuous values kind of the obvious choice?

    The advantage of having discrete (and easily identifiable) colors would be that it makes it easier to map a color on the graph/map to a clearly defined value range. But for that to work well you would need to use a very limited number of discrete classes, I guess.

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