Mapping California 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.
Upcoming Schedule (Please note: Workshops are one day only from 8:30
am to 4:30 pm. Participants choose only one day on which to
attend.)
Each workshop is customized for the city in which it
is taught.
Sacramento: January 10,
2006
San
Francisco: January 11 and 12, 2006
San Jose: January 11 and 12, 2006
City of Orange: January 25, 26,
27
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