[15242] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Dallas Demographic Analysis Workshops (April 7, 8 & 9)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gina Clemmer)
Tue Mar 23 20:15:27 2004
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:29:21 -0800
From: Gina Clemmer <info@SMARTGIRLTECHNOLOGIES.COM>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-to: Gina Clemmer <info@SMARTGIRLTECHNOLOGIES.COM>
Message-id: <0HUZ025HDN91PO@Post-Office.UH.EDU>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT
The Dallas Demographic Analysis Workshop™ - One Day Workshop
When: April 7th, 8th and 9th, 2004 (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)
Where: KDC Computer Labs, 7301 N State Hwy 161, Ste. 100 Irving, TX 75039
Fee: $225 for payment at time of registration, $249 regular price
The Local Demographic Analysis Workshop™ (LDAW) will teach you to extract,
query, download, analyze, map and present 2002-1990 demographic data for
Dallas and surrounding communities. Such data can provide grant writers,
social researchers and community planners with powerful tools for analyzing
community changes. Participants receive a comprehensive workbook that
includes the workshop presentation, exercises, reference materials and a
valuable Demographic Data Resource CD. This CD includes useful GIS tools
such as ArcExplorer and several shapefiles for the entire US. (Workshop
focuses on Dallas, but techniques are transferable to any location.)
See a detailed description & agenda
How to Register? Visit www.smartgirltechnologies.com or call 877-241-6576.
This workshop will:
Teach you to extract, query, download, analyze, map and present 2000-1990
Census and 2002 American Community Survey data that includes Income,
Race/Ethnicity, Age, Housing, Language and Transportation;
Teach you to construct a Local Community Change Profile™. The Profile is
comprised of 25 key demographic variables and customized for Dallas and a
Census tract within Dallas (participants may also substitute their own
community);
Teach you analytical, demographic and spatial analysis techniques including
commonly used mathematical formulas to transform raw data into compelling
information;
Teach you about Census geography including common problems such as working
with non-Census boundaries, analyzing change over time despite boundary
changes and how to use new mapping functionality recently built in to
American Factfinder;
Provide you with an extensive LDAW workbook that includes the a copy of the
presentation, exercises, exercise answers and written reference materials;
Provide a valuable Demographic Data Resource CD™ that includes useful GIS
tools such as ArcExplorer, a free map browser produced by ESRI;
Provide several boundary shapefiles such as tracts, counties, cities,water
and school district boundaries for the entire United States;
Entitle you to receive Information Activist™, a quarterly e-letter
highlighting new data rich websites and interesting social research;
Learn techniques to present data in clear, compelling ways in terms of
tabular, graphical and spatial data.
Former Workshop Participants' Comments:
View Other Participants' Comments
Special Care Services, Dallas, TX 2003
"This workshop really demystified the Census website and I will be using
this information for years to come."
North Lake College, Dallas, TX 2003
"This was absolutely first rate class! Very useful indeed."
University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston TX 2003
"The applied exercises are extremely helpful. The Instructor was very
knowledgeable! I gained much greater familiarity with Census data,
particularly with finding the data I need!"
NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy, NYC 2003
"This workshop presented a clear and precise overview. It was very useful!"
Smartgirl Technologies is a social research company located in Portland,
Oregon. For more information about the workshop, who we are and what we
do, check out our website at www.smartgirltechnologies.com.
If do not want to receive further announcements, click here. We will
immediately remove you from the announcement list.
