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GEOS270 Module 3

Using Data Classification to Visualize Patterns: The Rural Urban Divide

  1. Research Question
  2. Download the Project
  3. Workflow

Research Question

There are distinct social, political, and economic differences between Urban and Rural communities in BC. Today we are going to investigate if there is a difference in the cost of food in Rural and Urban areas. Specifically, portion of their income people spend on food. We are going to define Rural and Urban based on total population and population density.

Download the Project

I’ve already done most of this for you to save you a bit of time. You can download it here. Extract the Module3 project folder to your working directory (eg. C:/Temp). Open it, and double click the Module3.aprx file to open your project. Note this module used to be Module #4, so some filenames in the videos say “Module 4”. The names in the project folder have been updated, so don’t be concerned.

Workflow

1) Download census data

  • Use Simply Analytics to query and download Canadian Census data.

2) Pre-processing

  • Make sure your data is projected

3) Classify Data

  • Use the Updated Stats Canada urban/rural classification scheme

4) Visualize Data

  • Create charts to display your results

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