Mapping Oregon Communities: An Introduction to GIS and Community Analysis Workshop - One Day Workshop This unique, 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: August 29th (Tuesday) and 30th (Wednesday), 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 - 9800 SW Nimbus Ave Beaverton, OR 97008 - Limited seating, please register early Fee: $399 Checks, Credit Cards and Purchase Orders Accepted To register online or for more info visit http://www.newurbanresearch.org 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 online workshop Analyzing Your Community Workshop: Using the Census to Better Analyze Changing Places and People. 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 from participants of the Mapping Oregon Communities Workshop Oregon Dept. of Transportation: "A VERY helpful workshop; good use of our time; good pace." Oregon Dept. of Human Services: "This workshop was excellent. I particularly like the exercises and take home materials." Port of Portland: "This was a very good class, the best GIS course I have had. I liked that we focused on building practical skills, focused on functional and not the theoretical." West Linn-Wilsonville School District: "This was very good workshop, with an excellent instructor." 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.newurbanresearch.org If you do not want to receive further announcements, simply reply with the word remove in the subject line. You will immediately be removed from the announcement list. Please note that under no circumstances will we share your email address with anyone else. _______________________________________________ Crime mailing list Crime@private http://lists.whiteknighthackers.com/mailman/listinfo/crime
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