Final Project and other maps created

 After eight weeks this class has come to its conclusion. Our last task was to come up with a project idea that is geographic and meaningful. The project I came up with is exploring the possible correlation between hotdog and beer prices within Major League Baseball stadiums and the cost of living index score of the metro area in which these teams reside. The infographic I created is a mixture of bivariate choropleth for the hotdog and beer prices and a choropleth for the cost of living. The report I wrote that goes into detail about my findings can be found here. 

But the gist of it is that after identifying the prices of hotdogs and beers and analyzing how those prices may correlate to the cost of living, it can be concluded that there are more factors outside of just the cost of living that may factor into the prices of these products. Some of those factors may include team sponsorship, distance to distributors, level of income a team brings in each year, and attendance of fans to each game. It can also be concluded that the cost of living has a larger impact on hotdog prices than beer prices, however minuscule it may be the data trend suggests it. For fans who want to acquire the cheapest hotdog, and cheapest beer prices at the same time, and who reside within a relatively low to neutral cost-of-living will want to visit the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Chase Field, the Atlanta Braves Truist Park, and the Minnesota Twins Target Field. Here is the infographic that I created.

The one detail I am pretty proud of is the custom symbology I created for the callouts to showcase the team's location. Now if I ever want to make an MLB-focused map again I have the symbology ready to go. 

Now, I want to showcase some other maps that I created in this class. I am pretty proud of how they turned out. They weren't originally posted because they weren't required for the original blog post of their associated module.

This map is another version of the map shown for the module 1 blog post, the major difference is that this one only depicts the major riverways in Mexico.

Just as the title of the map suggests, this is a map of San Francisco's parks. I used the maps that I created at my job for Sarasota County as a reference on how to showcase parks, highways, and bodies of water in a government format.

This was a fun map to create, as the data was provided but we were allowed to customize how we presented the data as long as it was clear on what are recreational features within the city of Austin. I even went above and beyond and acquired data showcasing the boundary of the city of Austin. By including that boundary it would make it clear to visitors coming to the city what recreational areas are actually within the city limits.

This map was originally a conservation-focused map, but we were tasked with taking this data and formatting the layout to be something that a company would utilize. So, as someone who works for a company, I took inspiration from the layouts that I create and utilize almost every day. 

This map is a simple elevation map of Applegate Oregon. At my job I work with groundwater elevation contours, so by creating this map I gained new insight and ideas on how to present elevation data in a clear manner.