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1. In the Contents pane, right-click the Census_2010_By_Superneighborhood layer name and select Attribute Table.

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1. In the table view, use the scroll bar to scroll to the far right of the table.
2. Double-click the 'Name' field header to sort the neighborhoods alphabetically.
3. To select a neighborhood from the table, click the gray square to the far left of each row.
4. To select an adjacent section of records, hold down Shift and select a record below or above the currently selected record to automatically select all records in between.
5. To add or remove individual records from the selection, hold down Ctrl and select another record.

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1. In the Contents pane, right-click the Census_2010_By_SuperNeighborhood layer name and select Symbology.
2. Use the primary 'Symbology' drop-down menu to select Graduated Colors.
3. Use the 'Field' drop-down menu to scroll down sixth from the bottom and select the SUM_Vacant field. This field stores the number of vacant housing units within each neighborhood.

Within the The map view now displays a choropleth map, where the darker colors represent higher numbers . This is a typical convention in choropleth mapsof vacant housing units. In studying the map, it appears as if the most vacant housing is in southwest Houston outside the Loop. While this is true according to raw counts per neighborhood, there could be differences in the neighborhoods that are unaccounted for in this symbology. Now you will try normalizing by the area of the neighborhood.

1. Use the 'Normalization' drop-down menu to scroll to the bottom and select the last Shape_Area field.

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