I used ArchGIS to make a map showing some of the places I visit most often on campus. I used a chart that had the location of each building, the activity I do there, and how often I go to that building. The map has circles whose sizes correspond with how many days a week I visit that location. Because of that, it allows the viewer to get a good idea of how often I go to different parts of campus by simply glancing at the map.
I had used ArchGIS in other classes before, but it’s still quite frustrating for me to navigate. Still, I think it has a lot of potential because it easily can convert spreadsheet data to points on a map. This makes the process a lot quicker when you get used to it.
Visualization is so important, so I think web mapping has a lot of potential. It really helps people understand different patterns for themselves.
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Hi Sophie! I really like your map. I had the same idea with the symbol size corresponding to the number of days per week I visited certain spaces. I also agree with your frustrations about navigation. It is pretty hard for me to know what buttons to click and where different information or customization screens are stored. Do you have any helpful tricks that you’ve learned through your other classes?
Hi Sophie, this is a really clear delineation of your most frequently visited campus locations! I especially like how you used contrasting colors (blue and orange) to make the buildings pop out on the interface. Great choice of basemap too–it well shows the basic landscape structures and their names on a small local scale. I totally agree with you that visualization just makes representation and interpretation of data so much easier than only listing them in a spreadsheet. That is why web mapping platforms like ArcGIS have so much potential in humanistic analysis, although they can be unwieldy for beginners the first time around.