GIScience

Instructions: Your final project will be based on Assignment 5, “Geographic Correlation Analysis” and Assignment 6,
“Creating A Story Map in ArcGIS Online”.
The data you will use for you final project will come from two ArcGIS Online sources used in Assignment 5:
1. Minn 2016 CDC Chronic Disease Indicators
2. Minn 2017 American Community Survey States
From the CDC you will pick one of the following chronic diseases for your Dependent Variable (topic):
Disease Name (field name to use)
A. Asthma (Asthma Mortality per 1MM)
B. Coronary Disease (Coronary Mortality per 100K)
C. Heart Failure (Heart Fail Mortality per 100K)
D. Kidney Mortality (Kidney Mortality per 100K)
E. Liver Disease (Chronic_liver_disease_mortality)
F. COPD (COPD Mortality per 100K)
G. Diabetes (Diabetes Mortality per 100K)
From the ACS data you will use “Median Household Income” as your Independent Variable.
For this week’s assignment, you will create a plan for your final ArcGIS Online Story Map showing your understanding of the
many topics we learned in class this semester. This will only be a template for your final project, you do not have to complete
your entire final project now. Only the items in BLUE will be required as part of your project plan. All other entries should
be shown as a blank ‘section’ in your Story Map. However, you will not need to fully complete them yet.
Your draft Story Map should include at least one section, along with dynamic maps, graphics, charts, or other content, for
each of the following:
• Title Section – Complete this slide with your project title. It should contain some wording about ‘geo-spatial
analysis’, or ‘Where’, or ‘Location’. Your title section should be a creative presentation of photos, graphics, and
typefonts. Include your name, the course name, and a date. Total Points for this Section: (2)
• Geospatial Question Section– Which questions are you seeking to answer about the location of your spatial features?
What is the spatial relationship between your input layers? Examples:
• Is there a geospatial correlation between poverty and crime?
• What is the cancer incident rate for all counties within a 25-mile radius of the natural-gas power plant in the US?
• What countries would be most economically affected by Britain leaving the European Union?
You may include more than 1 geospatial question. However, for each one, you should create a separate map as
described below that shows your attempts to answer each question. Total Points for this Section: (2)
• Study Area Section – This will be the United States. You will include a Reference Map of the US for this section. An
entry for this section should be included in your side panel now but it does NOT have to be completed as part of this
project plan. Later, you will fill in this section with more details (text) of your dependent variable you chose and its
affects on the US for your final project.
• Literature Review (Background Information) – Provide some preliminary data sources (web-based or traditional
books or media). This will be just a short list of sources that you could use to provide some background information.
You will add more as part of your final project. You must use at least two reference sources and cite them in this
section. Proper citation is required in this section for both of (or all of ) your reference sources. Total Points for this
Section: (2)
• Methods and Data Section – You should write a few preliminary thoughts about how you intend to create your maps
and analysis. This will be a draft and you’ll be able to update this as you complete your final project. Consider using
one or more of these suggested steps:
o Enrich Layer – Combine your state data with a separate data source in order to gain key insights about the
relationship between the two. Example: Children under Age 14 and poverty at the census block level.
o Use sample data – Show a table of sampled data that could be joined to a spatial layer of states or counties.
Draw the results as a choropleth or with a ‘classified’ symbology based on your sample data.
o Use Geospatial Correlation – Perform the steps learned in the Week 6 Assignment to create some correlation
results of your own (use the ‘Join’ tool to combine layers into a single table with two fields that can be plotted
on a scatter chart). Draw the map, but also include your scatter plot, along with an R-value, and provide a
caption about any positive or negative correlation between your independent and dependent variables.
o Use the ‘Hot Spot’ tool – Create a new feature layer containing the Getis-Ord Gi* statistic. Compare
demographic information for both a hot spot and cold spot. You could also use Google Street View to
produce some qualitative observations about your hot and cold spots.
o Note: These are just a few of the skills that we learned in class this semester. You are NOT limited to
these! Explore more of the tools available to you from the ‘Perform Analysis’ button in ArcGIS Online.
Total Points for this Section: (3)
• Advanced Maps: Dependent Variable Map and Independent Variable Map– This map will be a bit more graphically
complex and should be produced with some of the analysis tools found in ArcGIS Online. An entry for this section
should be included in your side panel but it does NOT have to be completed as part of your project plan. Eventually,
you will fill in the details for your final project.
• Analysis of Data: Scatter Plot– What conclusions can you draw from your geospatial analysis? An entry for this
section should be included in your side panel but it does NOT have to be completed as part of your project plan.
Eventually, you will fill in the details for your final project.
• Limitations – What were some of the data gaps or other shortcomings of your analysis? An entry for this section
should be included in your side panel but it does NOT have to be completed as part of your project plan. Eventually,
you will fill in the details for your final project.
• Future Work – An entry for this section should be included in your side panel but it does NOT have to be completed
as part of your project plan. Eventually, you will fill in the details for your final project.
• References (Bibliography) – An entry for this section should be included in your side panel but it does NOT have to be
completed as part of your project plan. List your reference sources in this section. Eventually, you will fill in the details
for your final project.
• Metadata – An entry for this section should be included in your side panel but it does NOT have to be completed as
part of your project plan. Eventually, you will fill in the details for your final project.
Total Points for all other sections being included in your side Panel ( in black above) (1)
Total Points for entire Project Plan (10

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