Methods 3

Fall 2020

Eric Brelsford

Design and Urban Ecologies

The New School

Syllabus (PDF)

Classes

Week 1: Introduction to GIS

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in-class work:

  1. Latitude and Longitude
  2. Finding Data

assignment

videos

Week 2: Cartographic design and conventions

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in-class work:

  1. Mental maps recap
  2. Apply cartographic concepts to a map
  3. Styling with QGIS
  4. Projections

assignment

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Week 3: Thematic Maps

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in-class work:

  1. Opening CSVs
  2. Categorized maps
  3. Choropleth maps
  4. Choropleth maps and counting points in polygons

assignment

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Week 4: Geoprocessing

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in-class work:

  1. Select by location
  2. Geoprocessing
  3. Joins

assignment

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Week 5: Joins

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in-class work:

  1. Attribute Joins
  2. Attribute Joins with Census Data
  3. Spatial Joins

assignment

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Week 6: Hex bins, Heatmaps, Georeferencing & Creating Data

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in-class work:

  1. Geocoding
  2. Hexbins
  3. Heatmaps

assignment

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Week 7: Georeferencing & Carto

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in-class work:

  1. Georeferencing
  2. Carto

assignment

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Week 8: Models & CartoCSS

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in-class work:

  1. Modeling
  2. CartoCSS: Properties
  3. CartoCSS: Zoom Conditions
  4. CartoCSS: Attribute Conditions

assignment

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materials

Week 9: Using HTML and CSS in Carto

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in-class work:

  1. HTML
  2. CSS

assignment

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Week 10: Mapbox

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in-class work:

  1. Mapbox
  2. Mapbox in Carto
  3. Adding data to Mapbox

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Week 11: Other QGIS functions and plugins

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in-class work:

  1. Temporal Controller
  2. 3D Maps in QGIS
  3. Data Plotly

Week 12

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Week 13

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Week 14

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