April 30, 2012
Final Project Summary:
I have found that waiting until the last minute only lands me in trouble, sweating to beat the clock (the dreaded 11:59p.m.!) as I try to figure out the best way to finish my project. So I choose to do this final project differently and turn it in well before the due date. Additionally, my office is “mobing” to a local Air Force Base to start a two month project, so it is going to be a busy next two months, starting this week, so I figured it is best to turn in this project sooner than later. The goal of this project was to present two independent sets of data on a single map. The data? National SAT or ACT scores for 2009 and the percentage of students that took the exam during that year. I chose to go with the ACT scores (Link: http://www.act.org/newsroom/data/2009/states.html), because the data provided offered a composite score and I won’t lie, this late into the semester, we are all looking for a quick way out and this looked quicker for me rather than doing the individual scores. My choices: Quintiles classification method average score and proportional symbols mapping for the percentage of students that took the ACT exam. I incorporated a required caption. Well, that is it for this, oh, wait, still have a two page summary to write, guess I better get to that!
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