Mapping California Communities Workshop: An Introduction to
GIS & Community Analysis
Los Angeles: March 5th and 6th, 2009*
ExecuTrain of Los Angeles - 9841 Airport Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90045
Sacramento: March 5th and 6th, 2009*
ExecuTrain of Sacramento - 1860 Howe Ave., Ste 250 Sacramento, CA 95816
San Jose/Santa Clara: March 11th, 2009
ExecuTrain of Santa Clara - 2005 De La Cruz Blvd, Suite 200 Santa Clara,
CA 95050
Orange/Irvine: March 12th and 13th, 2009*
QuickStart Training Center - 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100,
Irvine, CA 92606
Fresno: March 13th, 2009
Heald College - 255 W Bullard Ave Fresno, CA 93704
San Diego: March 18th, 2009
Technical Training Resources - 6920 Miramar Road, Suite 105 San Diego, CA
92121
San Francisco: March 19th and 20th, 2009*
ExecuTrain of San Francisco- 101 Spear Street/One Rincon Center,
Suite 245 San Francisco, CA 94105
*Note: These are one day workshops (8:30am - 4:30pm). Participants choose
which one day to attend.
More Info/Registration:
http://www.urban-research.info/workshops/california-gis.htm
Audience: Beginners, anyone interested in mapping their community
Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3 to do the following:
Create thematic maps
Participants will learn to create thematic maps of their own data, and
display spatial trends in information.
Address mapping (geocoding)
Participants will learn to map addresses of their clients, their projects
or incidents such as crime and disease.
Download and Map Census & American Community Survey Data
Participants will learn to extract and map current Census data such as
poverty, race, language, population, transportation, education and
workforce characteristics.
Participants will also learn to:
Conduct spatial queries
Download free shapefiles
Create well-designed maps
Mapping techniques transferable to all other communities. Exercises are
designed for beginners. Intermediate Excel skills required.
Materials
+ Comprehensive workbook (75 pages), which includes the presentation,
exercises and reference worksheets,
+ ArcGIS (ArcView 9.3) software 60-day trial CD set,
+ Thirty day free access to new 2005 Tiger/Line geography files
(converted to shapefiles) which include streets, zip codes, school
districts, voting districts, census tracts and many other useful
geographies
+ Thirty day free access to our Analyzing Your Community: Local
Demographic Analysis Online Workshop
What People Are Saying about New Urban Research Workshops -
City of San Francisco: "One of the best computer training courses
I've been to, lively, informative, good level of difficulty for target
audience."
California Cancer Registry: "The workshop was great! The instructor
is very knowledgeable and helpful. I would definitely recommend this
course to a new GIS user."
UCLA: "This was such a great course! I appreciated the information
on where to find useful data."
Fresno City College: "This workshop was very informative and
enlightening. It demonstrated very powerful tools and concepts that I
will definitely be using in the future. The instructor was patient and
gave a lot of technical insight to the product."
New Urban Research, Inc. is a national social research organization
specializing in quantitative and spatial community analysis. NUR is an
ESRI Business Partner. New Urban Research, Inc. 2301 NW Thurman Street,
Suite S, Portland, Oregon 97210 | 877.241.6576 |
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