Submitting your ESS 132 Cartogram project.
You should now have four jpegs of the four cartograms you have produced one for each of your four sets of data on which you based your questions. Before you exported the cartograms to jpeg you should have added symbology based on the categories you used for your questions. See the example below.
Example cartogram
Data: electricity generated from coal (kwh per person estimated) 2002
Question: Are the countries of North America those most reliant on electricity generated from coal
Note: you divided the countries of the world into categories based on your question. In this case North America and the rest. You symbolized the cartogram using your categories which should appear in the attribute table if you followed all the steps. Let us recap:
1. Reorganise the spreadsheet data and add country category column layer [ESS 132 blog 20 september].
2. Join the spreadsheet to the worldmapper_all layer [ESS 132 blog 20 septemebr] in ArcMap.
3. Export the joined worldmapper_all layer to a combined shape file – this new shape file will contain the spreadsheet coulnms without needing to be joined to the spreadsheet[ESS 132 blog 11 October].
4. Run the cartogram tool on the combined worldmapper_all shape file four times - once for each column of data that applies to each of your four questions.
[Remember to first set the column value to >=0 in the definition query and to check the box to copy the feature table to output feature table see blog 4 October]
5. Export each of the four cartograms to a jpeg [ESS 132 blog 18 October].
Once you have your four jpegs of your four cartograms, one four each question you can prepare the presentation of your project.
Preparing your project presentation.
1. Make a power point presentation of five slides. Layout out each slide as described below.
Slide 1:
Title: (A suitable title which describes the whole of your project.)
Name: (You full name first name and surname)
Student number: (correct no mistakes please or we can’t assign you your mark)
Country category references: An Internet reference or references that you used to divided your countries into categories
Slide 2 – 5:
1. The question you asked
2. The jpeg of the cartogram which investigates the question.
3. Label on the map six countries of interest, hotspots, 1 – 6, use text boxes to do this.
4. The country name corresponding to the six hotspot labels
5. A descriptive sentence about each hotspot country explaining the answer to your question next to each country name.. They can either point to the answer being yes or no or an anomaly i.e. the cartogram does not appear to correspond well to the data the algorithm did not work well. Each of the four slides should look something like that below but with more detail.
Remember to save your presentation as you work on it.
Submitting you presentation
1. Save your presentation to portable network graphics by choosing Save as and setting the file type to Potable network Graphic png. This will create a folder in the name of your presentation containing five .png files.
2. Rename each file to [Yourstudent_number]slide[number].png e.g. 9807321slide1.png
3. Send the five png files of the presentation attached to an email to from your university email account. Put your student number and ESS 132 in the email title e.g. 9807341 ESS 132 assignment
FINAL DATE for submission 9 November 2012