In this lab we used ArcGIS, a mapping application intended for spatial analysis and mapping. ArcGIS has an advanced toolbar of options for creating maps and spatial analysis. We drew publicly available data on certain topics such as country income, life expectancy, etc. We layered this data into ArcMap to see spatially what kind of relationships between country characteristics may exist. Click here for the full writeup!
Using ArcGIS enabled our team to view the inferential statistics we gathered in our last lab in a spatially oriented manner. By uploading the statistics we had previously gathered onto ArcGIS, we were able to view them in terms of how they are laid out on a map of the world. In addition, we had the means to overlay both sets of inferential statistics we gathered so that we could view them on the same map, helping us to further understand how they could potentially correlate.