Lab 2
Introduction: The goal of this lab is to produce a map on ArcMap
by gathering and downloading data from a website that has data that is open to
the public.
Methods: I learned how to download data from an online data
source (U.S. Census Bureau). I also learned how to link the key fields from an excel
spreadsheet to the attribute table in ArcMap together so the GeoID makes sense
when it is mapped. I had to spend quite a bit of time joining tables together
to get the field values that I needed.
Results: The results were very interesting! The population
distribution makes sense because the most amount of people live in or around
the large cities in Wisconsin like Milwaukee, Madison, and the Green Bay areas.
When I mapped my second map, a map of households, initially, I thought I did
something wrong. It makes sense, however, that the maps are the same because
the correlation between a high population and the number of households needed
to house the population is very strong.
Sources: I used the U.S. Census Bureau website to download free public data.
Link to the Web-Map: http://uwec.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=67d5c8eaeec74c78902bd66717b066c0
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