Well this is it ladies and gentlemen, after I complete this lab I have completed another course here at Ohio Wesleyan University…well almost, I still have lab 10 which is an overall course recap, but it does not involve anymore work on the HTML pages themselves…so here is the skinny on lab 9… Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
12
Lab 8 was by far the hardest most drawn out lab that we have so far been assigned. And what made it even longer is the fact that I had to resave all of the maps that I perviously saved because I did not save them to .gif file, but instead I saved them to the .jpg file, so that was about a half hour of tedious work that I did not need to partake in. Anyways, now that I am finished with exporting all of the maps I am ready to animate all of them except for the proportional maps because those are not animated. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
11
Thus far lab seven had to be the most time consuming lab that we have been assigned. The reason for this was, yes the lab was mildly difficult, but we also had to make many different copies of our maps to get the different years in place for the animation process. At the end this lab had us make a total of a little under 50 maps. Yikes! The most difficult part of this lab was not making the copies though it was more along the lines of deciding what range each of the map legends should be at. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
11
Lab 6 was the mid progress evaluation. It was to help us recap the different thngs that we had accomplished during the course of the semester thus far. There really isnt much to explain about this lab.
Dec
11
Lab 5 involved importing the file generated in Lab 3 into ArcGIS, where I then linked it to a base map of my state. I then used the ArcGIS’s spreadsheet/database capabilities to calculate the data on population change thatwill eventually be mapped.
Lab 5 was not a too difficult lab for me to complete. The most difficult part of this lab was probably trying to figure out the field calculator, it reminds me of a math class that I had takend in high school, and to be honest I am not a huge fan of math, so that made it minorly difficult. But after I figured out the first couple calculations the rest because relatively easy.
Oct
03
10-2/3-07 The step by step process of the ArcGIS program was pretty easy to follow. I added another layer to the world map that we first put down…it was a point on the map that showed the biggest cities of the world. The attribute property is pretty easy to use. So this makes selecting countries pretty easy. Finding the symbology tab was pretty difficult. I realized soon after I was looking for it that instead of clicking on the world layer, I needed to click on the sublayer that I wanted to edit. Making a selection such as selecting a highway from one of the layers was pretty self explanatory.
Oct
03
9-26-07 Processing Data was pretty easy. I only ran into one problem that could have affected my information and that was the fact that one of the counties was not actually a county until just recently. The first census check on this county was in July of 2000. So when I first put all the data into an excel file this county did not show up. After I got the information for the 2000-2006 data I just put Broomfield (the missing county) at the end of all the rest of the counties. I was going to put it in alphabetical order but I then realized that this would mess up the FIPS
Oct
03
9-12-07 I used the Compact Guide of HTML to get started on my webpage. This website seems to have all I will need to make a solid webpage. It is definitely more efficient than buying a book with the same information in it…
Google API key: ABQIAAAA3TtQdL3FgmtNolbDOAWJ2xQ6zKRAHsOhKTTXFp340CvfYsMksBS3k1MBxGxbUlWlwDC-bjajfe-b9A
Sep
24
I was able to find the data for the years from 1900 all the way to 2006 but I was not able to find one page that contained all of that information. There is a different page for each of the different years that we are looking for. This will make finding the data mildly time consuming. The task of finding the census of single states is I wouldn’t say easy, but it is a task that is achievable. On the U.S Census Bureau page there is mostly information about the entire United States rather than each individual state. Therefore you have to do a bit of searching to find the information that you are looking for. Also there are so many different subcategories that are involved with the population, such as the population based on race, sex, and age, this also makes it harder to find the basic census of the state. The Bureau could definitely make the individual state information easier to find…
