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New Urban Research, Inc. Announces "Mapping Georgia Communities" - GIS and Analysis Workshops
(CSRwire) ATLANTA, GA. - October 2, 2008 - Mapping Georgia Communities will be the
focus of two beginner-level workshops offered in Atlanta to teach the
fundamentals of using GIS and Census data for community analysis.
Presented by New Urban Research Inc. the workshops are designed for
social service providers, academic researchers, urban planners and anyone
who performs community demographic analysis for governmental or private
organizations.
"Mapping Georgia Communities: Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis"
will be offered on November 13th and 14th at the Classroom Resource Group
Learning Center in Atlanta. Each workshop is one day and costs $495 per
person. No previous GIS experience is necessary. Information and
registration are available at www.urban-research.info.
"Any organization that seeks federal funding to perform public health,
economic or educational development is required to provide demographic
analysis on populations within specific geographic areas," said Gina
Clemmer, President of New Urban Research. "We teach students how to access
Census data files online and then use the GIS to extract specific
demographic information and map the results down to the neighborhood
level."
New Urban Research, a professional social research organization,
customizes the GIS exercises and demonstrations in each class with
geographic and mapping data relating to the state where the workshop is
being held. During the class, participants will be shown how to download
Census data relating to poverty, race, language, education and other
variables for their communities and integrate these files with their own
data sets for analysis in the GIS.
Using ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 software, participants will leave the class with a
thorough understanding of three core GIS applications: - Thematic
Mapping – Attendees will create color-coded maps of their data that
displays information trends.
- Geocoding – Attendees will map the addresses of their
projects, clients or incident areas.
- Spatial Analysis – Attendees will extract and map subsets of
variables from Census data.
Workshop participants will also receive a
free 30-day subscription to the Shapefile Warehouse, an archive of Census
Bureau data in GIS-ready data files. For every county in the United
States, New Urban Research has obtained the 20 most common geographies
(Street Networks, Political Boundaries, Census Blocks/Tracts, Traffic,
etc.) from 2005 Census TIGER files and converted them to ESRI shapefile
formats ready to import into a GIS. Participants may also purchase ESRI
ArcGIS 9.3 site licenses from New Urban Research following the
workshop.
Introducing more than 6,000 participants to GIS technology in the last
year alone, New Urban Research receives high praise for its hands-on
workshops. According to a Representative of the Women's Prison Association
in New York City, "[The workshop provided a] very clear and comprehensive
presentation on how to create analytically useful and aesthetical maps. I
like the structure of the workshop, the relevance of the exercises and the
additional materials and online resources."
About New Urban Research Inc.
New Urban Research is a professional social research organization with an
emphasis on geographic information systems (GIS). It specializes in
offering one-day workshops for service providers, planners and researchers
who want to analyze their communities with Census Data and GIS in the areas
of health, poverty, housing, discrimination, and other advocacy work. Along
with public workshops, New Urban Research offers customized workshops for
agencies looking to train a large group of employees to map and analyze
their own data. New Urban Research is an ESRI Business Partner. For more
information, visit www.urban-research.info.
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