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Data and Visualization Tutorials

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Getting Started: Linking to Servers and Creating Projects

Finding Geographic Shapefiles

Adding Shapefiles and Working with Layers

Selecting Subsets of Shapefiles

Setting Map Projections

Creating Layouts

Preparing Data to Merge

Joining Data to Layers

Symbology – Part 1

Symbology – Part 2

Adding Legends and Other Information – Part 1

Adding Legends and Other Information – Part 2

Exporting Map Images for Production

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