The county fills were technically correct but visually near-black: linear
min-max scaling crammed a right-skewed distribution into the dark end, so
the map read as empty. Fixes:
- Rank (percentile) coloring — spread the full palette evenly across
counties, the standard choropleth technique, so every lens shows rich
variation instead of a few bright outliers on black.
- Brighter per-lens ramps (income green, population teal, poverty amber).
- Coverage amber lifted so Florida's 67 lit counties are unmistakable
against the fog-of-war country.
- Default lens is now Median income, so the map opens full of color;
Coverage (the fog of war) is one click away.
Verified in-browser: full green income choropleth, Florida clearly lit in
coverage, hover readout prints each county's demographics + officeholders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fabio
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