DANIEL FEWELL

This is my final project for my class on cartographic principles. My professor challenged me to communicate a geographic phenomenon using geographic information systems. The goal of this project was to 1) Develop a clear geographic question, 2) Utilize GIS in order to conduct a geographic assessment based on my particular geographic question, 3) Clearly communicate the significance of my geographic assessment through the visual medium of a scientific poster. A large portion of the rubric focused on cartography, cartographic elements, visual professionalism, and creativity. I was also graded on data ethics and methodology.

If I were to recreate this assignment, I would change the considered variables to features about the schools such as: number of school shootings, proportion of students who report bullying, and number of on-campus crimes, etc.

In this project, I was challenged to create a one-page visual investigation incorporating data, geospatial visualizations in the forms of maps and/or satellite imagery, statistics, textual elements, and a write-up. I drew on the skills I learned in both ArcMap and R to design an engaging presentation, which transformed data into information.

If I were to recreate this project, I would orient the axes of the charts in the same direction and round the numbers (i.e. writing 1, 2, 3, 4 along the axis) then add "in millions" on the axis label. I would also remove the spelling / grammar error in the block of text at the bottom of the page.

This is where I will write a bit about the project.

This is where I will write a bit about the project.

Note that prior to this creating this script, I utilized PostgreSQL and PostGIS in the JupyterHub terminal to create the database and set up user access for this project.

Maps produced in Tableau.