Classifying Features and Rasters

In this chapter I learned how to classify features using the symbology feature in the data layer properties window. I am able to use different classification methods such as equal interval and natural breaks in order to divide values into different groups to be displayed on a map. I was also able to create different types of symbols in order to display data. There are graduated colors where data values are seperated into different groups based on quantitative values and then assigned different color values. There is also graduated symbol, proportional symbol, and dot density symbology.

This chapter was a quick refresher course on the types of maps I created last semester as I displayed population change over time in Arizona and New Mexico.