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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