Below is a map I made using Esri's Web app program. This map demonstrate the percent of U.S. counties that have either a High School Degree, College Degree, or No Degree at all.
In making this map I went back through the assignments I had completed through this whole course and decided which one sounded the most interesting or what I felt most people needed to know. I chose the Educational Achievements of the United States because I think this is something everyone should be aware of. Not only does the majority of U.S. counties only have high school degrees but there are chunks of counties that have no degree of any kind. As a fair amount of those counties are next to the U.S.-Mexican border it can be inferred that there isn't enough money in those areas to send kids to school.
The steps I went through for this project were not as hard as I thought they were going to be. First I saved different copies of the maps so when I put them in the web app maker I would have the exact map I wanted. After breaking them down putting them in the app maker was easy, after that the next hardest part was coming up with the map descriptions for each map. Due to this being an Esri training module I'm not completely sure where the data came from, so my descriptions following are my informed analysis of the data provided.
Applying this data into a story map not only helps spread the significance of the data but it also makes it easy to interpret and a quick read. I could give you charts and graphs to every state broken up by county but then it would all just look like a bunch of meaningless numbers. Story maps help demonstrate a story, you can see where it tells you the "who," and you can also click on the county for specific character details. The only way to get change is if we can see the problem and story maps are great too for this.
The steps I went through for this project were not as hard as I thought they were going to be. First I saved different copies of the maps so when I put them in the web app maker I would have the exact map I wanted. After breaking them down putting them in the app maker was easy, after that the next hardest part was coming up with the map descriptions for each map. Due to this being an Esri training module I'm not completely sure where the data came from, so my descriptions following are my informed analysis of the data provided.
Applying this data into a story map not only helps spread the significance of the data but it also makes it easy to interpret and a quick read. I could give you charts and graphs to every state broken up by county but then it would all just look like a bunch of meaningless numbers. Story maps help demonstrate a story, you can see where it tells you the "who," and you can also click on the county for specific character details. The only way to get change is if we can see the problem and story maps are great too for this.
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