Thematic Mapping Exercise

There are four different exercises listed below. You will pick two and accomplish them successfully. Pick one task representing Lowell (1 or 2) and one task representing the U.S. (3 or 4).
 
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1. Lowell Census Targets by Rooms per Target
   
   In this task you will have to use the following tables:
   C:\MapInfo\Class\Lowell\Census Tracts
   C:\MapInfo\Class\Lowell\Targets 
   
   By using these tables you will create a map that has the following characteristics:
   1. By using the Individual Thematic Map change each Census Tract a different color.
   2. By using the Graduated Thematic Map change the targets so that they are represented by rooms per target. 
   3. For the Room category the values for your three categories should be 2, 4 and 6. (Hint this can be accomplished by customizing the Legend) 
   4. Make all graduated dots YELLOW
   5. In the Legend showing we only want to see information about rooms not about Census Tracts
   6. Remember to Save your work under as a WORKSPACE in your OWN GIS FOLDER which can be found under
      C:\mapinfo\staff\YOUR NAME
      Remember: This is a WORKSPACE, not a table, so choose File and then Save Workspace. 
      
2. Lowell Census Targets by Rent per Target
   In this task you will have to use the following tables:
   C:\MapInfo\Class\Lowell\Census Tracts 
   C:\MapInfo\Class\Lowell\Targets
   By using these tables you will create a map that has the following characteristics:
   1. By using the Individual Thematic Map change each Census Tract a different color
   2. By using the Ranges Thematic Map change the targets so that they are represented by rent.  
   3. Customize the Ranges so there are 5 categories & use The Method Field Natural Break to re-categorize your targets.
   4. All targets should be represented by a diamond & each diamond that represents each category should be a different size and color. 
   5. In the Legend showing we only want to see information about rent not about Census Tracts
   6. Remember to Save your work under as a WORKSPACE in your OWN GIS FOLDER which can be found under C:\mapinfo\staff\YOUR NAME
      Remember: This is a WORKSPACE, not a table, so choose File and then Save Workspace. 
      
3. BIVARIATE MAPPING
   States Populations: Rural vs. Urban
   In this task you will have to use the following tables: C:\MapInfo\Class\United States\States  By using this tables you will create a map that has the following characteristics:
   1. All population information will be represented by Pie Charts. We want to compare the following two categories: Rural vs. Urban.
       All pie charts should be the same size. (Hint: unclick the graduated box) 
   2. Urban should be represented by Blue
   3. Rural should be represented by Yellow 
   4. The diameter of the pie dimension should be .20 inches
   5. Remember to Save your work under as a WORKSPACE in your OWN GIS FOLDER which can be found under C:\mapinfo\staff\YOUR NAME
      Remember: This is a WORKSPACE, not a table, so choose File and then Save Workspace.  
   6. Close all tables
   7. Try this with a bar graph and decide which of the two you like better
   8. Close all tables
   9. Highlight an individual state and redo the task.
      
4. States Populations: Caucasian vs. Black
   In this task you will have to use the following tables: C:\MapInfo\Class\United States\States  By using this table you will create a map that has the following characteristics:
   1. All population information will be represented by Pie Charts. We want to compare the following two categories: Caucasian vs. Black.
   2. All pie charts should be the same size. (Hint: unclick the graduated box) 
   3. Black should be represented by Blue
   4. Caucasian should be represented by Yellow 
   5. The diameter of the pie dimension should be .20 inches
   6. Remember to Save your work under as a WORKSPACE in your OWN GIS FOLDER which can be found under C:\mapinfo\staff\YOUR NAME
      Remember: This is a WORKSPACE, not a table, so choose File and then Save Workspace.  
   7. Close all tables
   8. Try this with a bar graph and decide which of the two you like better
   9. Close all tables
   10. Highlight an individual state and redo the task.

It is time to move onto the Next Section... Drawing.
 
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