Cartography Week 5: Choropleth Maps

For this week's lab, we made a choropleth map of population densities for European countries, with proportional or graduated symbols for wine consumption per capita in 2012. For my map, I chose to represent population density with five classes divided by natural breaks, and I represented wine consumption as proportional circles with grape icons. This lab was frustrating because of technological issues, most notably ArcGIS Pro's inability to complete the labeling function. I'm not sure why the processing speed was so slow that it was unable to label Europe's countries despite trying on multiple occasions and different wi-fi networks, but I wasted quite a bit of time hoping the labels would show up eventually before finally resorting to manually labeling each country. Because of all the technological issues, my map isn't as polished as I'd like. It also took about an hour for the layout to export, and when it did, it looked like this:


I have no idea what went wrong here, but this is a screenshot of my actual layout:


I'd really love to know how to fix ArcGIS Pro's processing speed and other issues, because experiencing this many problems for one lab is completely unsustainable!



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