New Urban Research Inc. Announces Mapping California Communities GIS
and Analysis Workshops
LOS ANGELES (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 13, 2008 --
Mapping California Communities will be the focus of beginner-level
workshops offered in several California cities to teach the fundamentals
of using GIS and Census data for community analysis. Presented by New
Urban Research Inc., the workshop is designed for social service
providers, academic researchers, urban planners and anyone who performs
community demographic analysis for governmental or private organizations.
“Mapping California Communities: Introduction
to GIS & Community Analysis” will be
offered throughout September and October in various California cities.
Each workshop is one day and costs $495 per person. No previous GIS
experience is necessary. Information and registration are available at www.urban-research.info.
“Any organization that seeks federal funding
to perform public health, economic or educational development is
required to provide demographic analysis on populations within specific
geographic areas,” said Gina Clemmer,
President of New Urban Research. “We teach
students how to access Census data files online and then use the GIS to
extract specific demographic information and map the results down to the
neighborhood level.”
New Urban Research, a professional social research organization,
customizes the GIS exercises and demonstrations in each class with
geographic and mapping data relating to the state where the workshop is
being held. During the class, participants will be shown how to download
Census data relating to poverty, race, language, education and other
variables for their communities and integrate these files with their own
data sets for analysis in the GIS.
Using ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 software, participants will leave the class with a
thorough understanding of three core GIS applications:
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Thematic Mapping – Attendees will create
color-coded maps of their data that displays information trends.
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Geocoding – Attendees will map the addresses
of their projects, clients or incident areas.
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Spatial Analysis – Attendees will extract
and map subsets of variables from Census data.
Workshop participants will also receive a free 30-day subscription to
the Shapefile Warehouse, an archive of Census Bureau data in GIS-ready
data files. For every county in the United States, New Urban Research
has obtained the 20 most common geographies (Street Networks, Political
Boundaries, Census Blocks/Tracts, Traffic, etc.) from 2005 Census TIGER
files and converted them to ESRI shapefile formats ready to import into
a GIS. Participants may also purchase ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 site licenses from
New Urban Research following the workshop.
Introducing more than 6,000 participants to GIS technology in the last
year alone, New Urban Research receives high praise for its hands-on
workshops. According to a Representative of the Women’s
Prison Association in New York City, “[The
workshop provided a] very clear and
comprehensive presentation on how to create analytically useful and
aesthetical maps. I like the structure of the workshop, the relevance of
the exercises and the additional materials and online resources.”
About New Urban Research Inc.
New Urban Research is a professional social research organization with
an emphasis on geographic information systems (GIS). It specializes in
offering one-day workshops for service providers, planners and
researchers who want to analyze their communities with Census Data and
GIS in the areas of health, poverty, housing, discrimination, and other
advocacy work. Along with public workshops, New Urban Research offers
customized workshops for agencies looking to train a large group of
employees to map and analyze their own data. New Urban Research is an
ESRI Business Partner. For more information, visit www.urban-research.info.
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