Lab 2 Technical report

Lab 2

 

 

Goal

      The goal of this lab was to teach us how to get data that was not already provided to us by our instructor, join th information together and then map it. Other skills were continuing to work with map projections and also dealing with mapping data that may not be normalized.

 

 

 

Methods

With part one we were required to get census data on total population in Wisconsin counties from the census data website. I did this by going through the advanced search and narrowing the search down to the data from total data I then downloaded the data and opened the tables up and changed them into excel workbook so they could be read in ARCMAP. Then I had to search for the shape file of Wisconsin from the census data website so the table data could be displayed on the map. Then I had to join the two tables of areas and the population  so that when I went into the symbology tab I would be able to create a chloropleth map. I then repeated these steps to create another map that was based off of family concentration in Wisconsin which is the red chloropleth map. Then to make sure that both of the maps were pleasing to look at I changed the projection to a state plane projection of Wisconsin as to have the least amount of distortion in the image. These maps were then put into a layout view and a legend, north arrow, title and scale were added to both maps for visual clarity.

 

 

Results

 

Sources

Table data and and shape file were acquired from the census website www.factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t the projection was obtained using ARCMAP which is an ESRI product