Week 6 - Choropleth Mapping

This is the black and white version with the calculations for each division. I am not sure if this was done correctly but I took each divsion and calculated the average from all the states to come up with my percentage. Next was to display this by using Illustrator. It seems that there should be many shortcuts that I just do not know about. It takes a long time for me to do anything in this program. It also does not help that the remote desktop has a lag time.

This map was fairly simple to complete. However, my biggest challenge was trying to figure out how to change the projection. I could not find the Albers projection...the discussion board is great...thanks again Lynn.

Week 5

For this lab, we were given several items that needed to be resized, arranged, and recolored. I'm sure there are several ways to accomplish this but I am the right-click queen when it comes to doing these tasks. I really want to have a background color but everything I have tried fails to show up in a jpeg. Any tips would be nice...

Week Four

Okay, here it is. I had a blue background for the water area but it did not show up in the jpg. Creating this map was a little frustrating because I do not know the program at all. Once I figured out how to do the simple tasks it went by quick. I was poking around a lot and I must say, Illustrator is intimidating.

Week 3: Data Classification

It seems to me that the Quantile version portrays the data best.

I am not quite sure I have the correct data in this map. The Standard Deviation map would not allow for 5 classes, which makes me think I have missed a step. The classification of data in these maps create a completely different outcome.