Final Project: Education, Longevity, and Population Density within the State of California
For my final project, I chose to explore the variables of population, life expectancy, and education within the state of California. The CSV file from the Health Rankings & Roadmaps website was downloaded and then uploaded as a table to my ArcGIS Pro project. Within this project, I also uploaded the Esri sourced data on education levels within counties. Since the FIPS fields of these layers did not match, I used the Field Calculator to adjust the Health Rankings & Roadmaps county FIPS so they would all have a leading ‘0.’ Doing so allowed me to join these layers and have all of my county attributes in one singular feature layer. I then symbolized the education and life expectancy layers to consist of three quantile data classes, which allowed me to obtain the values that I would use to assign classes. The classes were then assigned to a newly created field within the attribute table, and then these fields were combined to one final field using the Calculate Field tool. This fi