Tag: Workshops

This semester’s GIS (geographic information systems) Practicum, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software, will take place on the following Fridays:

• March 8th
• April 26th

The day-long workshop runs from 9am to 4:30pm. CUNY graduate students, faculty, and staff are eligible to register; Baruch undergrads may register with permission from the instructor. Advance registration is required; the fee is $30 and includes a detailed tutorial manual and a light breakfast. Visit the GIS Practicum page to learn more and to register: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis

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This semester’s GIS Practicum, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software, will take place on the following Fridays:

• October 14th
• November 11th

The day-long workshop runs from 9am to 4:30pm. Baruch & CUNY graduate students, faculty, and staff, Baruch undergraduates, and Baruch CAPS students are eligible to register. Registration is $30 and includes a detailed tutorial manual and a light breakfast. Participants must register approx one week before the workshop begins. Visit the GIS Practicum page to learn more and to register. Registration opens on August 26th.

Last semester’s practicum was well attended; forty-five participants representing a variety of academic disciplines and ten different CUNY campuses. The tutorial from last semester is available online. This year’s practicum has been revised, and participants will receive an updated manual.

Course Description:

Do you have a research question that you’d like to envision geographically? Maybe you’d like to study neighborhoods and businesses to target a market. Or perhaps you want to visualize the distribution of education, employment, or resources across the country or around the world. Have you ever wanted to add a map to your presentations or reports, but couldn’t find one that suits your needs?

This practicum introduces participants to geographic information systems (GIS) as a concept for envisioning information and as a tool for conducting geographic analyses and creating maps. Participants will learn how to navigate a GIS interface, how to prepare map layers and conduct a basic geographic analysis, and how to create thematic maps using the open source software QGIS.

This semester I will be running a day-long workshop entitled “Introduction to GIS using Open Source Software”. GIS is software that you can use for doing geographic analysis (study neighborhoods, target markets, visualize data geographically) and making maps.

The workshop is open to Baruch students (undergraduate, graduate, and CAPS), faculty and staff, and CUNY graduate students, faculty, and staff. The software we’ll be using is free and open source, which means it runs on any operating system and will be easily accessible to everyone before, during, and after the workshop.

The workshop will be offered three times this semester, 20 seats per session. They’ll be on Fridays from 9am to 4:30pm on:

March 4th (register by Feb 28th)
April 1st (register by March 28th)
May 6th (register by May 2nd)

Registration is $30 and includes a comprehensive tutorial booklet and light breakfast. The workshop will be offered in library room 135.

A course description, a link to the registration page, and course material is available in the GIS LibGuide. The registration page is hosted on the CAPS website.