Elizabeth Jimenez Section 1D Lab 7

     The first map I created shows the White population across the continental US. In this map we can see the different levels of concentration of White people across the nation. In the legend we can see the numbers are dispersed however in the countries different regions white people exist most in the numbers between 107-141092. More concentrations of white people are located in many areas of California closer to the south around Los Angeles and some areas of the east coast as well such as florida.  The white population in the United States makes a large presence and they are very distributed across the country.

     The Second map I created shows the Black population and its distribution among the United States. In this map we can see that the Black population is not very well represented across the country. There is less Black people that are distributed throughout the nation and their numbers are very low compared to the above white population. There are very few places across the United states that have a large black population in their cities or regions. Mostly the black population is under represented in many areas across the nation.

     The Asian population in the United States also composes less numbers that the white population across the United States. However the Asian population does make up bigger numbers than the above black population. In the United States we see large concentrations of Asians in Southern California, Florida and New York among other places. Even though their numbers are not larger than the White populations they as well make up a large percent of the population in the US.

     Working with Census data this week was not as frustrating as other weeks because the tutorial was very clear and to the point. GIS on the other hand was not that easy to work with because it constantly lost my work and I found myself having to start a lot of the labs over. From previous weeks GIS had given me a lot of problems and sometimes it would not do what I wanted it to do. There were steps in the instructions that no matter how hard I tried GIS would not cooperate. When I did figure out GIS for some of the labs it gave me a great sense of accomplishment because I felt like it was a mission sometimes. GIS steps could be simplified to help the user to make it easier but overall the experience was both butter when it lost my work ad sweet when I finally completed the task.

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Elizabeth Jimenez LAB 6 section 1D

 

For this week's lab assignment I created a map of the mountains located in Fresno California, the decimal degrees for this map were 0.017453292519943295, and the direction it was facing was north. The spatial of this map was GCS_North_American_1983. Creating this map I was able to see the images of the mountains in 3D as the map above shows and I was able to see the different angles of the mountains using arcscene. Arcmap allowed me to color shade the maps to show the different depths and different inclinations that the mountains I chose had. In Arcscene created a model that was 3D and showed the map above from a different angle.

Elizabeth Jimenez Lab 5 Section 1D

     This weeks lab assignment was to create six different maps. I found this assignment to be particularly hard because the instructions were not clear like they were for the last assignment and I had trouble finding the cities it asked me for. The distances between the cities I found however I could not figure out how to subset the layers.

      I attempted this assignment several times before I was able to create the maps although I feel as it is not exactly what the assigment was asking me for . This was because I could not figure out how to make a new layer with the cities that were asked for .

     Working with ArcMap is always a challenge because the work can get lost which has happened to me several times and sometimes it does not do exactly what I asked. For example it took me a while to figure out how to use the measuring toll for this program because I felt like most of the time it did what it wanted instead of what I wanted to find out. Instead I tried making the maps with original map that was given.

    Once I learned how to properly use the measuring tools the measurements I saw were different for Geodesic, Loxodrome and Great Elliptic. For Geodesic the distance between Afghanistan and Washington DC was about 28.270.18 Miles. The Loxodrome distance was about 18, 867.94 miles and the distance using Great Elliptic was about 20,347.65 Miles.These measurements showed different summed distances for each of the maps.
    

Elizabeth Jimenez-Week 6- Lab 1B

                   Working with ArcMap this week was a bitter sweet experience. There were several times where the program frustrated me and drove me to the point of wanting to go home. After various attempts at mastering the program I was finally able to finish my lab. The first time I worked with ArcMaps was after the lab exam last thursday. I thought the instructions were straight forward and liked how the tutorial showed me step by step how to work with the program. However, after about an hour of working with the program it did not allow me to edit any more. I tried saving my work and restarting the program with no luck. All the data I had worked on was lost, I experienced an ArcMap glitch. ArcMap did not allow me to continue working from where I left off and I had to start over. This was very frustrating after an hour into the lab I lost it all so I decided to come back and try it a different time. 

         The second experience with ArcMap was also very frustrating because after a few steps the program froze again. I tried going to a different computer lab and trying the program there but I accidentally erased my toolbar that showed the data such as the schools and the airport area. After this it did not allow me to continue and I once again lost all my work. Having been pressed for time I gave up once again and decided to come back later. After the second experience I believed that I was not going to complete my lab in time. 

         The third time I came back the program was finally cooperating with me, I was able to follow the instructions successfully and get through the tutorial. There were points where I thought I had lost everything once again, however I was able to recuperate all of my work and figure it out. There were a couple of times where the instructions were misleading, however, after a couple of tries I was able to finish everything. After finishing the lab it gave me a great sense of accomplishment and I attained very useful knowledge from the program. 

    Overall, the program aside from being frustrating because it lost my work a couple of times turned out to be a great experience. Not only did I learn from the program, but it also made me feel as if I could accomplish many things. The tutorial was easy to follow and gave directions that were very straight forward and to the point. After having done this once I definitely think that I could work with this program again and have better experiences.