Date: Friday 3rd April 2020 @ 10am – 4.30pm
Venue: Now online
This is a training and capacity building event organised by the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) in conjunction with the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), ESRC funded research projects.
In this one-day introductory course we will give you an overview on how GIS works, and what we can and can’t do with spatial data. We assume no prior knowledge of GIS and will explain how to get data into the GIS as well as how to produce maps using your own data.
The course covers:
- What is spatial data and what we can do with it
- Getting spatial data into QGIS
- How to design a choropleth map
- Creating a map for your report / publication
By the end of the course participants will:
- Be able to set up QGIS and add data
- Understand how to add coordinates
- Join tabular data to spatial data
- Be able to undertake calculations
- Classifying data for a choropleth map
- Designing and producing a publication ready map in QGIS
Course Tutor
Dr Nick Bearman completed his PhD in GIS at the University of East Anglia in 2011 and has since worked in both the public and private sectors, using GIS on a wide variety of projects and helping others develop their GIS skills. He has held post-doc positions at the Universities of Exeter and Liverpool, where he used ArcGIS, QGIS and R on a regular basis to perform GIS analysis in a variety of projects. He is now working at the CDRC as Data Services Manager as well as lecturing in Geography at UCL.
Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Chartered Geographer (GIS) and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Authority, with a range of teaching experience including undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing professional development. Nick has over 9 years professional experience teaching GIS and has been using GIS since his undergraduate degree in 2005. He has worked with ArcGIS, QGIS, R, GeoDa, Google Maps API, Python and a variety of desktop and web-based programming languages.
Target Audience
This course is ideal for anyone who wishes to use spatial data in their role. This includes government & other public sector researchers who have data with some spatial information (e.g. address, postcode, etc.) which they wish to show on a map. This course is also suitable for those who wish to have an overview of what spatial data can be used for.
This course requires no prior knowledge of GIS or spatial data. A level of basic computer experience is required; such as using websites, Word and saving & moving files.
Outline of the day
09:50 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:20 What is GIS?
10:20 – 11:15 Practical 1 Intro to QGIS
11:15 – 11:45 Classification
11:45 – 12:30 Practical 1 continued
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 13:45 Map design
13:45-15:00 Practical 2 Tiger Map Design
15:00-15:15 Tea/Coffee
15:15-16:30 Practical 3 – Bring your own data
Fees
- University, public and charitable staff with SLA membership – £72.00
- All other delegates with SLA membership – £180.00
THAT’S 40% OFF FOR SLA MEMBERS!
Further information
All fees include event materials.
For further information about the course, please email ke.coordinator@sbs.ox.ac.uk BOOK NOW