Census Map

My two Census Maps

These are the two census maps that I was able to complete. I ran into some issues trying to create my own maps using census data. The first issue I ran into was saving my data from the previous week incorrectly and having to start the tutorial over again. After I had started over and was almost done with the tutorial I ran into issues joining. Dr. Dvorak attempted to help me join new data or even to join some of the data from the week 6 tutorial and was unable to. She told me to post the maps I was able to complete and write about the difficulties to complete the join.
It seems that the program was being very finicky when attempting to join data. Every time the join was attempted it failed. We were unsure why this was occurring. There was also difficulty when substituting values and having them default to values that I did not want to use.
All in all I found working with the census data very difficult and frustrating. I can appreciate the use of the maps when they are completed successfully and think they are very useful. I really like how data can be highlighted in different colors to have an easy visual of data. I think GIS is really beneficial to better understand the world around us. This exercise in GIS was really neat to see how data can be manipulated to highlight different races, years or numbers of people using census data. I wish the program would have been a little easier to work with so I could have joined data. I really appreciated Dr. Dvorak taking so much time to help me try to join tables and data and found it unfortunate we were able to successfully join the tables.