Course Materials

Reference Texts

  • GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences: Coding, Mapping, and Modeling. Robert Nash Parker, Emily K. Asencio. Routledge, 2009. ISBN 1135857598.
    • Not specifically QGIS, but the generally prinicples apply.
  • Geocomputation with R. Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, Jannes Muenchow. CRC Press, 2019. ISBN 1351396900.
    • Chapters 2 – 6 will be most helpful with getting started.
  • Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python. Joel Lawhead. Packt Publishing Ltd, 2013. ISBN 1783281146.

Course Notes

Day 1

  • Class notes
  • QGIS Workshop Outline

Day 2

  • Class notes
R_Notes.docx

Class Recordings

Session 1

This video contains an introduction to map making including topics such as: maps as models, coordinate reference systems, vector data, raster data.

Link to Video

Session 2

This video contains the basics of QGIS. If you find sudden jumps in the video it is due to chunks of time where we were troubleshooting specific issues during the workshop. The sound quality of these bits was not good enough to be useful, so I cut them out.

The video file is fairly large so you will need to click the link below and download the file to your computer. The file is a standard mp4.

Link to Video