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GIS Across the GIS Across the CurriculumCurriculum
Meg StewartJanuary 22, 2013
Agenda
• What is GIS?• What does GIS look like across the
curriculum?• How does one do GIS?
Spatial thinking is an ability to visualize and interpret location, distance, direction, relationships, movement and change through space.
Spatial literacy is an important component in digital literacy and media fluency.
With GIS, one can gain an understanding of data and how data can be represented.
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GIS Data Management
Thematic layers
One layer for each theme… Roads Land use Streams Elevation Aerial photographs…
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Aerial photograph
Railroad lines
Tax parcels
Building points
Select
Buffer & select
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Science, Technology, Engineering & Math -
STEM
Digital humanities
Digital social
sciences
Why Is GIS Unique?
• GIS handles Spatial information– Information referenced by its location in space
• GIS helps make connections between features based on spatial proximity
• GIS addresses and helps to evaluate relationships between otherwise un-relatable data
If you have some sort of information (current, past, or projected)
andyou have a location to attach to that information, you can analyze it in GIS.
Examples of GIS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/28/a-color-coded-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-emotional-countries/?tid=pm_world_pop
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/pcpn/us_precip.gif
Sites of "Civil Disorders" in the United StatesJanuary - September, 1967
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg190/scaled.php?server=190&filename=totalcounty.gif&res=medium
http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/424/pics/week2/county_gas_prices.jpg
http://opensignal.com/
NY Times: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/mapping-toilets-in-a-mumbai-slum-yields-unexpected-results/
Map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?vps=2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=213281544174043702623.0004b617c56e89532fff9
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323894704578105031877259720.html
What County-by-County Results Tell Us About the Election
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-state-blue-city-how-the-urban-rural-divide-is-splitting-america/265686/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-state-blue-city-how-the-urban-rural-divide-is-splitting-america/265686/
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
http://makingmaps.net/2008/02/05/more-principles-of-map-design/
Two themes
Economics
GeologyGeophysicsHistory
Biology
Environmental JusticeEnvironmental Justice
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/hurricanes/#!/2011/Irene
Source (Nov. 2012): http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2012/1120-sandy/survey-of-the-flooding-in-new-york-after-the-hurricane.html
Source (Dec 23, 2012): http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2012/1120-sandy/survey-of-the-flooding-in-new-york-after-the-hurricane.html
Source (Dec 23, 2012): http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2012/1120-sandy/survey-of-the-flooding-in-new-york-after-the-hurricane.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/17/science/1218-sand.html
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1860-61
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/3841/Vote-on-secession-in-the-South-by-counties
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/petition-to-secede-states_n_2120410.html#slide=more32984
What could the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, actually see during the battle of Gettysburg?
Anne Kelly Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/27/arts/spatial-maps.html
http://www.conflicthistory.com/
http://michaelporath.com/projects/manifest-destiny/
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/maps/regionmap/regionmap.html
Witchcraft Charges
Why did witchcraft charges spread so rapidly and widely in 1692, affecting 156 people — 15 times more than in any other incident — across 25 communities in Essex County, Mass?
Benjamin Ray, the director of the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive at the University of Virginia
Where did Georgia O’Keeffe paintRoof with Snow?
Mapping the SS Concentration Camp System Over Space and Time
Map Showing Overlap of Concentration Camps and Subcamp System with Industrial Resources and Installations, 1933-1945. Each cross represents a main camp or subcamp, while the red shading indicates concentrations of the iron/steel industry and blue shading references centers of machine tool production.
Anne Kelly Knowles and Paul B. Jaskot, with Chester W. Harvey, Charlie Hofmann, Toral Patel, Roz Vara, and Alexander Yule
http://www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/holocaust-geographies/?content=sscamp
http://www.1940snewyork.com/
http://www.whatwasthere.com/
Map: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-desert-locator/go-to-the-locator.aspx
NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of-food-deserts-and-obesity-challenged-in-studies.html?_r=1&
http://tinyurl.com/ZipCodePhilanthr
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/sep/11/education-compared-oecd-country-pisa
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/atlas-of-rural-and-small-town-america/go-to-the-atlas.aspx
How do you do GIS?
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CountryStateCountyCensus Tract
Census BlockgroupCensus Block
Zip codeArea codeSchool districtTax parcel
GIS Data Polygons
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GIS is the best way to answer spatial questions
like…• Which properties are within 500 feet
of Lawrenceville Road?• How many people live within a mile
of the elementary school?• What terrain is visible from the
Franklin Moore Library?• When and where might the next
hurricane hit?
Functions of a GISor
How GIS is different than Google Earth
• Query• Buffer• Proximity• Connectivity• Modeling
If you have some sort of information (current, past, or projected)
andyou have a location to attach to that information, you can analyze it in GIS.
Contact: meg.stewart@fulbrightmail.org
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