My First Lab! 

Overview of ArcGIS

Wow!  My first lab for Intro to GIS was a fun one.  I think this is a useful representation of what the population of the world was in 2008.  I tried to utilize the lighter to darker shades of red to show how density varied from country to country.  I would have liked to work on the legend a little bit more, possibly rounding the values to whole numbers, but I didn't want to jump too far ahead.  I added the tan color at the bottom of the map in order to break up the "white space" that I felt my eye was focusing on.  I feel with the title, legend, scale, and source information listed at the bottom of the map, the reader will focus on the content of the map rather than the void "white space" that was left at the bottom of the map.