This workshop will provide an overview of geographic information for students who have data they want to map or analyze to understand if what they are studying demonstrates variability across space (e.g., across an environmental region, between neighbourhoods in a city region). A wide variety of tools for working with geographic data are now available from commercial vendors, open source projects, and online hosted services. The workshop will present an overview of tools and services that participants could use to perform some basic management of geographic data and to publish web maps of their data.

The overall objective of the class is for you to

· Discuss GIS basics and the concepts of map making.

· Explore some cool maps and discuss the data used and the story/analysis the maps are visualizing.

· Use an example topic to practice finding, adding, importing data and then use tools in ArcGIS to analyze the map.

· Create your own map by using a provided topic where you will be asked to find data, and analyze the map using ArcGIS tools.

Instructor(s): 

Sarah Shujah, Liaison Librarian, Human Geography & Biological Sciences, SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow, UTSC Library

David Kwasny, Digital Projects & Technologies Librarian, UTSC Library, Digital Scholarship Unit