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Agenda
On Monday, Welcome and Introductions begin at 8:45am in Ellison Hall, Room 2620, followed by the lecture at 9:15. On all other days, the lecture is from 9:00am to 1:00pm daily in Room 2620. Exercises are from 2:00 to 5:00pm in Room 2610 (computer lab next door).
Monday, 23 July:
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8:45 |
Welcome
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• Welcome and Introductions |
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9:15 |
Lectures: |
• Why visualize spatial data in the social sciences?
(Dorling)
• The cartographic communication process: map purpose, map functions, and map audience (Buttenfield)
• Putting data into context: Locational reference systems and map projections (Tobler)
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2:00 |
Exercise: |
Map design with graphic illustration software (Freehand).
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Tuesday, 24 July:
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9:00 |
Lectures: |
• Working at different map scales: map generalization
(Buttenfield)
• The art in c a r t ography: graphic design issues
• Map symbolization: The visual variables (Fabrikant)
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2:00 |
Exercise: |
More on map design (Freehand, WWW)
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Wednesday, 25 July:
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9:00 |
Lectures: |
• Symbolizing point, line, and areal features (Fabrikant)
• Mapping statistical data: data classification (Buttenfield)
• Mapping statistical data: cartograms (Dorling)
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2:00 |
Exercise: |
Downloading, processing, classifying, and visualizing census data with GIS (WWW, Excel, ArcView)
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Thursday, 26 July:
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9:00 |
Lectures: |
• Mapping change in statistical data: geographical movement
(Tobler)
• Continuous representations of statistical data: geographical interpolation (Tobler)
• Spatial analysis with maps: dasymetric mapping (Fabrikant)
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2:00 |
Exercise: |
Dasymetric mapping (ArcView)
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Friday, 27 July:
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9:00 |
Lectures: |
• Current developments in geographic visualization (GVis), including 3D mapping, animation etc. (Dorling/Clarke)
• Information Visualization: using GVis principles for non-spatial data (Fabrikant)
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2:00 |
Projects:
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Presentation and discussion of participants' own data/mapping projects. Bring your data, bring information on your own mapping ideas/project to share with the group!
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