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Welcome to the homepage of the Spring 2021 GIS Workshop Series at Vanderbilt. These workshops are sponsored by the Digital Scholarly Communications Office (DiSC) and the Spatial Analysis Research Lab (SARL).

What's GIS?

A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS integrates many types of data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of information into visualizations using maps and 3D scenes. ​With this unique capability, GIS reveals deeper insights into data, such as patterns, relationships, and situations—helping users make smarter decisions.

Many different types of information can be compared and contrasted using GIS. The system can include data about people, such as population, income, or education level. It can include information about the landscape, such as the location of streams, different kinds of vegetation, and different kinds of soil. It can include information about the sites of factories, farms, and schools; or storm drains, roads, and electric power lines.

With GIS technology, people can compare the locations of different things in order to discover how they relate to each other. For example, using GIS, a single map could include sites that produce pollution, such as factories, and sites that are sensitive to pollution, such as wetlands and rivers. Such a map would help people determine where water supplies are most at risk.

About the workshops

Anyone who is interested in GIS, Mapping, OpenSource GIS, is welcome to attend. This semester (Spring 2021) we will be two separate series of workshops.

The first workshop will focus on ESRI Basics from ArcPro to ArcGIS Online (February 11 - 12 from 2 - 4 pm)

The second workshop will focus on Introduction to QGIS (February 25 - 26 from 2 - 4 pm)

Venue

Registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/springgis

Zoom link will be sent to those that register.