Special Topics - Project 3 Week 1
The week starts off with a new project: Statistical Analysis of Methamphetamine Laboratory Busts in West Virginia. For Prepare Week we had to do a bit of reading up on Methamphetamine, it's
history and its users. We also created a basemap to use in upcoming weeks to display and report on the analysis of the data we were supplied or downloaded in order to assist the government and law enforcement in anticipating future criminal activity.
The study area of census tracts for Kanawa and Putnum Counties was provided along with a point file of Charleston Meth Labs. The cities, roads, river, and counties of West Virginia were downloaded from the US Census Bureau's Tiger Shapefile site.
In preparation for the analysis process to occur next week a spatial join was performed on the census tracts and meth lab layers in order to combine the attributes of both tables into one. Once the attribute tables were combined the unnecessary fields were turned off and this is what we were left with:
Some of the attribute names were a little difficult to interpret. Best guess is sometimes the best you can do. It will be interesting to see what we do with them next week.
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