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The GIF is collaborating with the UCANR Informatics and GIS Statewide Program (IGIS), the UCB Library, the D-Lab, ESRI, and the California Rare Book School to offer these spring 2023 geospatial workshops! All workshops are online and free (with the exception of History of Cartography).
Spring 2023 Online Workshops |
Introduction to ArcGIS Online (UCANR) Friday, September 22nd, 2023 from 1:00-4:00 pm: online, free. This workshop is designed for participants with little to no GIS or web mapping experience. Following a brief lecture, the workshop will include an interactive exercise that will have you manage, load, analyze and stylize fire data to build your own web maps with ArcGIS Online. This exercise will conclude with you exploring the various options for publishing a web map online; including using story map templates. Requirements: Participants must have an ArcGIS Online account set up prior to the workshop. Intro to R Workshop Series (UCANR) Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 from 10:00-12:00 pm: online, free. Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 from 10:00-12:00 pm: online, free. Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 from 10:00-12:00 pm: online, free. Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 from 10:00-12:00 pm: online, free. R is a powerful open-source statistics platform and programming language widely used in many disciplines. The R community has produced thousands of packages (add-ons) that expand its capabilities and have made it the data analysis tool of choice in many fields including the biological sciences, economics, social sciences, statistics, etc. R's command line interface however can make for a steep learning curve that makes R a little intimidating for beginners. This three-part workshop series is designed to help newcomers get up to speed using R, and refresh skills for people who skills might be a little rusty. Requirements: No experience necessary. People with some R experience are welcome to start with workshop #2, but will be expected to know the basics (e.g., working with RStudio, writing R commands in scripts, basic syntax, installing packages, etc.). This hands-on workshop will use RStudio running in a virtual machine from Posit Cloud (i.e., in a browser). All participants will therefore need to create a free account on Posit Cloud. Additional info will be provided the week before the workshop. Parts of the workshop will require you to follow along as the instructor types code to solve a problem. It is therefore highly recommended that you join the workshop on a computer with two monitors, so you can view the instructor's screen on one monitor, and work in RStudio in the other. Alternately you could use two computers, or one big monitor large enough for multiple windows. Participants who only have a small laptop with no external monitor may find it challenging to complete the hands-on exercises, and may just want to watch. Introduction to ArcGIS Pro (UCANR) Friday, October 13th, 2023 from 1:00-4:00 pm: online, free This workshop is designed for participants with little to no GIS experience. Following a brief lecture, the workshop will include an interactive exercise that will have you loading, creating, analyzing and stylizing spatial data, while building your own map with ArcGIS Pro. This exercise will conclude with you exploring the various online data repositories that are available through ArcGIS Online. Requirements: Participants must have ArcGIS Pro installed with an active license on their personal computer prior to the workshop. Sorry, this application does not function on Apple OSX or MacOS machines. Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks in ArcGIS Pro (UCANR) Friday, November 17th, 2023 from 1:00-4:00 pm: online, free This workshop is designed for participants with little to no GIS or coding experience. Following a brief presentation, the workshop will include an interactive exercise that will have you working on an operation with the GUI, then the same exercise using Python within ArcGIS Pro. This exercise will conclude with you being able to begin to program GIS operations within ArcGIS Pro. Requirements: To complete the hands-on exercises, participants will need a licensed copy of ArcGIS Pro. All UC students and faculty should have access to ArcGIS Pro through their campus. For others, information will be shared on how to obtain a temporary ArcGIS Pro license. Introduction to ArcGIS Story Maps (UCANR) Friday, December 15th, 2023 from 1:00-4:00 pm: online, free This workshop is designed for participants with little to no GIS or web mapping experience. Following a brief lecture, the workshop will include an interactive exercise that will have you load and stylize spatial data online, to create Story Maps within ArcGIS Online and the new ArcGIS Story Map Builder. This exercise will conclude with you exploring some of the numerous story map template options and advanced features for publishing your content online. Requirements: Participants must have an ArcGIS Online account set up prior to the workshop. Experience with ArcGIS Online is preferable, but is not required. R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2 (D-Lab) Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 from 9:00am-12:00 pm: online, free Thursday, November 9th, 2023 from 9:00am-12:00 pm: online, free Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research. This workshop focuses on fundamental operations for reading, writing, manipulating and mapping vector data, which encodes location as points, lines and polygons. Requirements: D-Lab's R Fundamentals or equivalent knowledge; previous experience with base R is assumed and basic familiarity with the tidyverse. |
Cancellation policy: For billable workshops you must cancel your registration up to 24 hours prior to the workshop, to avoid payment.