Lab 10

Oil Production In Texas

This map shows a multiple different types of data from the drilling of shale. The circle size represents the wells and the colored circles is the gas-to oil ratio. And the isoline of colors show what is in the land wether it is oil, wet gas or dry gas. 

Although this map is also a dynamic map the static final version still shows us important information and gives us a good idea of whats going on in the south of Texas but, we don't see the change very well from 2006-2010 without the dynamic ability. 

The bottom Maps is the same map with a simplified legend its static, looks a lot better but its really that much better due to the lack of information on the legend. Check out the links below to learn more about the maps and shale drilling in Texas. 

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=3770

http://oilindependents.org/the-eagle-ford-texas-shale-star/

Lab 9: Dot Density

Final Project Proposal

For my final project I plan on making a choropleth map of Europe countries using music recording data.

The data will be from the International Federation Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reports called “Recording Industry in Numbers” which releases every year with updated data and the last 4 years of data . The report complies data from all countries main data source that documents the record industry stats. For example Recording Industry Association of America for America.

Like I stated earlier I’ll be focusing on Europe countries, which are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK.  Which in total is 24 countries that I have data for.

Here is an example of how a portion of the data looks for a country on the report this one is France.

Primarily I want to create two maps side by side of these countries looking at the 2007 and the 2011 percentage of sales that are subscription based music services. ( I could also look at physical sales and total digital sales). The audience of this map ranges from labels seeing if its lucrative to have catalogs of music distributed through subscription services or investors looking to dip into the market of subscription services. 

Example of the type of map I want to make. 

The reason I want to focus on Europe is because music sales in Europe work in an interesting fashion. Having a song reach the top of the charts of one country almost guarantees you will also do well in the charts in other areas. For example a hit song in Germany will garner attention in most of Eastern Europe. A hit song in France will spread throughout Canada and even French influenced areas in Africa.

Also subscriptions services such as Spotify and Rdio have been increasingly popular through the last few years it would be interesting to see how much of the market they actually hold in terms of sales. Especially in Europe considering countries such as Finland, Spain, France and Greece all have laws that everyone should have access to the internet, so more people would be able to subscribe to these services.  


First I need to get a shape file of Europe that has the included countries open in ArcMap and save as an illustrator file, then compile the data into a spreadsheet so i can break them down into intervals (not sure which one). 

Population Density Change in Chicago

The changes from Chicago racial diversity are an interesting topic within its self. But I chose this map because I think it poorly displays it. It is hard to tell whats going on without reading the topic. It just seems the amount of people just increased and neighborhoods have got more dense. They explain the change well and more other information in the article though. The links describe more detail about the change in the neighborhood and gentrification through the city. 

http://www.lib.niu.edu/1988/ii880524.html

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/news/why-are-we-still-collecting-taxes-prevent-white-flight-chicago-110325

Lab 8: Isoline