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Upcoming Workshop - Mapping Washington Communities: An Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis Workshop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafal Kasprowski (PACS-L moderator)
Tue Jan 3 20:22:43 2006
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From: "Rafal Kasprowski (PACS-L moderator)" <rkasprowski@UH.EDU>
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Subject: Upcoming Workshop - Mapping Washington Communities: An Introduction
to GIS & Community Analysis Workshop
From: "Gina Clemmer (New Urban Research, Inc.)" <nurinfo@urban-research.info>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:00:55 -0800
Mapping Washington Communities: An Introduction to GIS and Community
Demographic Analysis Workshop - One Day Workshop
This fast paced, hands-on workshop teaches the fundamentals of how to use a
Geographic Information System (GIS) in a way that is particularly relevant
to social service providers, planners and researchers. Participants learn to
make thematic maps of their community, geocode addresses and perform spatial
queries and analysis. Participants also learn to extract and map Census
variables such as race, poverty, language, education, health and many other
demographic variables. Exercises are designed for beginners. Intermediate
Excel skills required. Each students is assigned a computer on which to work
for the day.
When: March 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2006 (8:30 am - 4:30 pm) Note: This is a one day
workshop. Please choose which date is most convenient for you.
Where: New Horizons Computer Learning Center 12822 SE 32nd Street STE 200
Bellevue, Washington 98005 - Limited seating, please register early
Fee: $399 Checks, Credit Cards and Purchase Orders Accepted
To register online or for more info visit
https://www.urban-research.info/ur/workshops/workshops-gis.shtml or
telephone us 877.241.6576.
Workshop Materials
Materials include a comprehensive workbook (75 pages), which includes the
presentation, exercises and reference worksheets, ArcGIS (ArcView 9.1)
software 60-day trial CD set, a subscription to the Planners' ToolBox
subscription service which provides access to new 2004 Tiger/Line geography
files (already converted to shapefiles) such as streets, zip codes, school
districts, voting districts, census tracts and many other useful
geographies. The subscription also includes the Analyzing Your Community
Workshop: Using the Census to Better Analyze Changing Places and People
online web workshop.
Workshop Agenda
Lesson 1
Learn the basic functions of ArcGIS 9.1
Adding data and geography layers
Working with Layouts
Lesson 2
Introduction to Census Bureau's American Factfinder
Downloading Census and American Community Survey data to map
Downloading free geography files including tracts, zip codes, blocks and
several others
Preparing Census tract data in Excel to import into ArcGIS
Lesson 3
Creating thematic (color shaded) maps to display data
Joining data with geography files
Working with legends and interval breaks
Lesson 4
Address mapping (geocoding)
Downloading free business addresses
Lesson 5
Performing location queries
Performing attribute queries
Creating target area shapefiles
Lesson 6
Elements of good maps including colors, fonts and map must haves
Critique of several maps
Praise for the Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis Workshop
King County, Dept. of Transportation- Seattle (2005): "The workshop was
great. The instructor did a wonderful job keeping the class together and
flowing. Enjoyable class, thanks!"
Santa Clara Family Health Plan - San Francisco (2005): "Really excellent and
informative. A great introduction but at the same time gave me real tools
to apply right away."
Oregon Dept. of Transportation - Portland (2005): "A VERY helpful workshop;
good use of our time; good pace."
Oregon Dept. of Human Services - Portland (2005): "This workshop was
excellent. I particularly like the exercises and take home materials."
New Urban Research, Inc. 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.urban-research.info.
New Urban Research, Inc. 3323 NE 33rd Ave Portland, Oregon 97212 --
877.241.6576 -- info@urban-research.info
