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Mapping Texas Communities Workshop: An Introduction to GIS and Community
Analysis
Austin: Nov 1st, 2nd • Houston: Nov 8th, 9th • Dallas: Nov 19th •
San Antonio: Nov 16th
*All Are One Day Workshops (8:30 am - 4:30 pm)
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Audience: Beginners, anyone interested in mapping their community
Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.2 to do the following:
Creating thematic maps
Participants will learn to create thematic maps of their own data, and
display spatial trends in information.
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Address mapping (geocoding)
Participants will learn to map addresses of their clients, their projects or
incidents such as disease or crime.
Download and map Census & American Community Survey data
Participants will learn to extract and map current Census data such as
poverty, race, language, population,
transportation, education and workforce characteristics.
Participants will also learn to:
Conduct spatial queries
Download free shapefiles
Create well designed maps
Mapping techniques transferable to all other communities. Exercises are
designed for beginners. Intermediate Excel skills required.
Materials
+ Comprehensive workbook (75 pages), which includes the presentation,
exercises and reference worksheets,
+ ArcGIS (ArcView 9.2) software 60-day trial CD set,
+ Thirty day free access to new 2005 Tiger/Line geography files (converted to
shapefiles) which include streets, zip codes, school districts, voting
districts, census tracts and many other useful geographies
+ Thirty day free access to our Analyzing Your Community: Local Demographic
Analysis Online Workshop
What People Are Saying
University of Houston: "This was a fast-paced, excellent presentation. Well
worth the time."
University of Texas, School of Public Health: "Excellent. The workshop was
straightforward and very 'digestible'."
City of San Antonio: "This workshop provided good content, and instructor's
teaching style facilitated easy learning."
City of Round Rock, Texas: "Workshop was fast paced and taught efficiently on
an easy to understand level."
New Urban Research, Inc. is a national social research organization and ESRI
Business Partner, specializing in quantitative and spatial community
analysis.
New Urban Research, Inc. 33232 NE 33rd Ave Portland, Oregon 97212 |
877.241.6576 | www.nur-online.com
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