| To start
the project I acquired US census data from 2000 - 2001 in shape files. After
doing some ArcView manipulation (removing Alaska and Hawaii locations) I imported
them into Idrisi. A comment on accuracy here is it seems the US like to 'dither'
the census information as suggested in section 8-3 of the accuracy disclaimer document
provided as meta data. Conversion to a raster format with a suitable
scale measurement was accomplished with idrisi and Albers projection. Assigning
the id codes of the data set to the values of the points in the raster image. All other data like team location, attendance records, time zone, financial, etc., were obtained and input manually. Since I am a student with no pay this suggest a high incidence of input errors. Hopefully my technical knowledge and desire for a good mark can compensate for the previous handicap. The jewel in the crown of my data acquisition was the financial report given out by the NFL, which as a private company does not have to make public these records. Searching for this bit of knowledge caused much strife in my life. |
