Project Trial 1 --proceedure

1) I tried to get demographic (income and employment 2003) information off of National Atlas, but had trouble opening the shape file because it is a zip file. I opened it with 7Zip, saved the folder to my desktop, and  then loaded it into arcGIS10.

• result: outline of all counties of all states
• double click on the file, go to symobology, pick the attribute you want displayed on the map
• Result: on my map: shows (# of jobs/persons per county)  for each county
• highlighted just NY counties: make a table just for NY
• **Use metadata: look under "attributes" to know  what the data is about

2) Open Table for the layer

3) select all
4) save table as a text document

5) import text document into Excel (different fields are delimited with commas.)

• result: completed table in Excel for NY

6) save as CSV (comma delimited) file

7) upload to Geocommons: (not geocoding) bea_fips to cntyidfp
8) Shape: quintile (choose attribute)