Lab 3: Downloading GIS Data

Introduction
    The main objective of this lab was download data form a source and make two maps from the downloaded data.

Goals
1.) Download 2010 Census data (Total Population) from the US Censusu Bureau.
2.) Download a shapefile of the 2010 Census boundaries from the US Census Bureau.
3.) Join the downloaded data to the Census shapefile.
4.) Map the data.
5.) Download and map a variable of your choice.
6.) Build a layout with both maps.
7.) Post to blogger.

Process
  The first thing I had to do was download the data from the US census bureau's website. For my first map I choose to use total population by county of Wisconsin. After I downloaded the population data I had to get the Wisconsin shape file, which is also located on the US census bureau's website. After I downloaded both the shape file and the table data of the population I had to combine the data with the shape file. I did this by using the table join feature, the common attribute was the GEO_ID. After I combined the data with the shape I went to symbology and created a choropleth map.

Results
  The results

The map in blue is counties based of off Total male population by percentage and the yellow on the right is total population per county.

Source: United States Census Bureau