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A quick 2nd look at Story Maps:

• Building your own Story Map Tutorial
• Building your own tool: 
  • Story Maps (new tool)
  • Story Maps (classic tool)
  • UMinn Story Maps Resource Page

Let’s look at some additional ArcGIS examples in an educational context

• Origin of US State Names
  • Started with a spreadsheet – perhaps build through student research?
  • Map in ArcGIS
  • Web App
• Jewish populations and the Holocaust
• Civil War battles in Eastern Theater
• Parks in Allentown vs Parks in Philly
• American Panorama

Other Maps that I’ve built for middle school students’ research topics…

• Modern Slavery
• Water access
• HIV
• Youth Cigarette Use

Cool ESRI Data sources/tools that work with ArcGIS.com

• ESRI’s Community Analyst
• Tapestry Data

Let’s dive deeper into adding custom data…

Adding new data (from outside ArcGIS) to a map

• Working with point data, which is the easiest possible data
  • A small dataset: Iacocca Hall geocache locations.csv
    • Note the lat/long are in DD format
  • A larger dataset: Honey Bee Production in the USA
• Creating your own POINT DATA set for ArcGIS – Spreadsheet KungFu!:
  • An example:
    • First – I saw this article:
    • Then I went and got the raw data for test scores
    • Then, I needed addresses for the PA schools
    • Then, I needed to mesh the two together…this is the Kung Fu!
    • Need to find a common value to match two data sets together
    • Need to “clean the data” so that it will import into ArcGIS.
      • Spaces, dashes, and periods are not allowed for field names in the header row.
    • Make sure there are separate columns for latitude and longitude values.
    • Check that longitude values for the western hemisphere are negative (if in decimal degrees).
    • Best practices for file format
    • Resulting in this csv file
    • Resulting in….this map app
• Importing polygon data….it’s sort of hard (read impossible) to do so with just ArcGIS
  • But…let’s try to import this data set into ArcGIS and see what happens: Jewish demographics circa Holocaust -sheet 2.csv
  • What you need is a shape file.
  • So…there are ready-made shape files available on the www.
    • Shape file resource example 1
    • Shape file resource example 2
    • “But, I want to add data to this shape file I found!” 
      • Adding data to a shape file (Not that we’re going to get into this!)
• Don’t have access to a pre-made shape file but you REALLY want polygons? You have two choices:
  1. Get help from a GIS master (like Jeremy Mack)
  2. Combine Point data to Polygon data using ArcGIS.com’s JOIN tool! If we have time, I’ll demo….
  3. Combine Point & Polygon Data with the Append Data Tool

I NEED HELP!

• ArcGIS online Help Videos

Time to brainstorm again:

• Talk to some peers to clarify your thoughts about your ArcGIS project
• Having trouble? Check out this cool map site for inspiration!