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Mapping Washington Communities Workshop - August 2006
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gina Clemmer)
Mon Jul 10 20:34:28 2006
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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 00:34:30 -0700
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Mapping Washington Communities: An Introduction to GIS and Community Demographics Workshop - One Day Workshop
Seattle and Olympia Locations
This unique, hands-on workshop teaches the fundamentals of how to use a Geographic Information System (ArcGIS 9.1) 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: Seattle: August 10th and 11th, 2006 Olympia: August 9th, 2006 (8:30 am - 4:30 pm) (Note: These are one day workshops. Please choose which date is most convenient for you.)
Where: Seattle: Computer Classrooms - 10604 NE 38th Place, Suite 118 Kirkland, WA 98033
Olympia: Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Library Building . 2nd Floor Olympia, WA 98505
Fee: $399 Checks, Credit Cards and Purchase Orders Accepted
To register online, view workshop locations, or for more info visit http://www.urban-research.info 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 2005 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 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 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 national social research organization specializing in quantitative and spatial community analysis.
New Urban Research, Inc. 33232 NE 33rd Ave Portland, Oregon 97212 | 877.241.6576 | www.urban-research.info
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