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The Asian population percent of continental North America is shown on this map. From this map one can see that the highest percentage of Asians is located in California. And this is shown through the dark brown color on California. To be exact, the darkest shade of brown is in the bay area and in Los Angeles. From this information, people learn that Asians usually live in the North Bay or in Los Angeles. This information can be applied and be useful for many things such as advertising. For example, now that people know where most Asians are, companies that have a lot of Asian customers might want to put their companies or ads in California.

There is a lot of “some other race” living west of North America. The highest percent of “some other race” is located in California, Washington, and New Mexico. Again this information can be used in the same way as with the Asian percentage map. Overall, it shows how diverse different places in North America is. In this map, it seems that Central America does not have “some other race”. This can mean that Central America is not very diverse.

Black population seems to cluster in the east- south of North America. Also, since the color shade is pretty dark or concentrated in California, it means there is still a high percentage of blacks in California but just not as high as in the south east. This information can give us information about the progress of blacks moving from place to place. From history, Africans were slaves and most were brought to the south east and from this map, it seems that Africans have not disbursed much and that they remained from they were.

In conclusion about census data, it helps as a visual aid to prove several points. People can use this information to do many things such as locating stores, or anything that attract a particular race or ethnicity group. And it can be done with other things besides race such as level of education, marital status, age group etc. Because different things attract different types of people, using census to see where these types of people are can help determine where the best and most efficient location to place something is.   

My overall impression of GIS is that it can be very useful but it is difficult to use because there is so much to learn and so many functions to this program. You can do many things with it and because of so many options, it isn't user friendly. GIS makes maps that can inform people about a topic and it can serve as a visual aid which is very helpful. However, much practice needs to be put into this program if someone wanted to use it in a presentation or to prove a point which can be time consuming.