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OUTLINE INDIA (Social Impact through Data) Geographic Information Systems Workshop By Khushdeep Malhotra (Visiting Fellow)
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OUTLINE INDIA(Social Impact through
Data)
Geographic Information Systems
WorkshopBy Khushdeep Malhotra
(Visiting Fellow)
Presented by: Khusdeep Malhotra
Geography and Urban StudiesTemple University
Maps have power
www.thetruesize.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
..and with great power
..comes great responsibility?
Cholera Epidemic, 1854, London
But what does this have to do with GIS?
What’s a GIS?
“In the strictest sense, a GIS is a computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations. Practitioners also regard the total GIS as including operating personnel and the data that go into the system.” (USGS)
“A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing things that exist and events that happen on earth. GIS technology integrates common database operations such as query and statistical analysis with the unique visualization and geographic analysis benefits offered by maps.” (ESRI)
“GIS is an integrated system of computer hardware, software, and trained personnel linking topographic, demographic, utility, facility, image and other resource data that is geographically referenced.” (NASA)
How a GIS relates space
Case Study:
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Public Participation
Case Study: Policy Development
Project Title:Sustained Funding for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program in Georgia
Advocacy Organization:Georgia Equality
Establish that this was a statewide issue not restricted to Metro Atlanta
• Create a user friendly, web-based GIS database of HIV/AIDS prevalence rates between 2008-2010 at the congressional, house and senate district geographies
Make legislators listen!
• Identify legislators to speak with
• Prepare fact sheets for lobbying using maps
• Participate in lobbying at the Capitol during the ADAP Lobby Day event on Feb 22nd, 2012
Aims:
GIS Software
Commercial
Open Source
Nominal Data
‘Nominal’ means “in name only.”
Data reflect categories with names, not scores or rankings (hence qualitative, not
quantitative)
Ordinal Data
Interval Data
Ratio Data
Spatial Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TgQbmWOPHA
Open Source Mapping
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Who can do this?
Don’t believe me?
Let’s give it a try then!
Anyone!!
www.outlineindia.com
OUTLINE India
Address: C-2630, Sushant Lok-I, Gurgaon
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.outlineindia.com
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