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Week 10 Ways to polish up your final Layout
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Overview Changing file names to better names in Legend Choosing categories in a Graduated Legend Adding/Changing Labels in Legends Improving Control over placing things in your Layout See timetable for time of final https://www.admin.wwu.edu/pls/wwis/wwskcfnd.TimeTable https://www.admin.wwu.edu/pls/wwis/wwskcfnd.TimeTable
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Changing File Names in Legend
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Changing File names in Legend Start with some data displayed as you wish – here counties by population
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Open Theme/Properties
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Change Theme Name
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Result
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New name appears on TOC and in Output Map
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Choosing Categories in Graduated Legend
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Choosing Categories in Legend There are variety of ways to divide data into categories the most popular are natural breaks (arc view default) Equal Area (same spatial coverage) Equal Interval (same span across each category) Quantiles (same count of entities in each category) Standard Deviation
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Today we will experiment with Quantiles
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Select Classify, Quantile, then 4 classes and round numbers at whole values
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Result
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Now you experiment Do different classifications show different patterns?? Why? Which might be best Why?
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Labels Let’s say that the default labels in ArcView weren’t what you want, how do you change them???
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Labels Let’s say that the default labels in ArcView weren’t what you want, how do you change them???
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Labels Note how if the legend starts at 60% (county with highest concentration of Asians) and uses equal interval we don’t have much
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Labels Let’s make our categories go 5, 10, 15, 20% and all above and see if things are better
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1. Set things to 5 categories
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2. Go into the values window and change min and max settings
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Changes made
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Better but not good enough
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How would you continue to improve this?????
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Improving Control over Placing things in your Layout
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In your Layout go to Layout/Properties
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In the window that opens change the values ot 0.01
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Then okay and now with the black arrow try moving things around
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