Week 5: PID/Year Table Joining Practice

 

I downloaded off of he IPUM NHGIS website, two tables and a geography file. The tables were titled: Total Non-Farmer Tenancy Status and Total Population both for 1930 census records. The geography GIS file was for count lines in 1930. Joining the two tables was fairly easy, once I re-watched the video a couple times to see the steps carefully. I did find the steps to join a fair bit tedious and redundant as most things with ArcGIS Pro is. 

For symbology I selected to showcase the values with four colors normalized into four shades to represent PID per year. When doing so as I changed the values and normalized section mostly in order to look the most even across the nation I realized I was using the date set symbols to my own gain. Granted it was to make the map look nice overall, with somewhat even distribution, and not for monetary gain it was still using the tools provided for my own argument in a way. 

Above a screenshot of the shapefile and joined tables and Below is a screenshot of the layout page before exporting. 

I wasn't able to upload a pdf into blogger and I had already exported the layout as one. My personal laptop is unable to handle the ArcGIS Pro application, so below is a screenshot of my final map layout.