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| date | 2025-03-12 |
Class during these days will be led by Carolyn Talmadge of the Tufts DataLab.
These classes will introduce you to GIS software and applications. We will be using ArcGIS, a commercial platform that Tufts makes available through an online interface.
You might also be interested in QGIS, a free and open-source platform for organizing and analyzing spatial information — the beating heart of any GIS application.
QGIS provides a Python API, but we'll just be focusing on the main application for now — hence why this is a plain Markdown file and not a Jupyter notebook.
If you want to get a head-start, follow the tutorial in the QGIS documentation.
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@Jasnow.EtAl2018
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A Gentle Introduction to GIS: https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/
- Due before class on Wednesday, March 26: Discussion 7 - GIS
- Due before class on Monday, March 31: GIS Lab
Using ArcGIS and the tutorials provided in class, design and deploy a small GIS application on either a book of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire or the Catalog of Ships in the Iliad (Book 2, lines 484–877).