Mapping Indiana 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 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 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 Training Center 11611 N. Meridian Street, Ste 200 Carmel, IN 46032 - 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

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

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