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The Final Project is now due December 8th. I will be out of town and largely offline the week of November 30th. Weiwei, our TA, has generously agreed to hold office hours from 2-4pm on Tuesday (12/1), Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Weiwei’s office is next door to mine on the third floor of Maxcy Hall. The extended project proposal is due next week. The proposal, is really more like a detailed outline of your final project. The proposal should incorporate: An introduction to your project and a statement of the problem you are investigating This week we will discuss the concept of scale. Scale is an core geographic concept and can have an important impact on how we understand social and environmental problems through a GIS. We’re at the midpoint in the semester. Increasingly this class will revolve around your final projects. Each person is required to complete a final project that demonstrates mastery of GIS concepts by engaging a substantive problem in your discipline. Your project could be a part of (or supplement to) an honors thesis, masters thesis, or dissertation. The project [...] This page is gallery of the maps from the first cartographic assignment. This week we will critique your homework, discuss your final projects, review the basic principles of cartography, and we’ll have a map design competition. Its going to be a busy evening! This week we’ll learn about map projections and coordinate systems, we’ll review the material from last week, and we will visit the library to get an overview of sources of geographic data. We’ll spend some time discussing the Monmonier article. We’ll continue the previous lecture with a discussion about data modeling. There will be an exercise in class on ways to query spatial and non-spatial data (using SQL). For the first few weeks when you complete a homework I’d like you to sketch out the process you used to answer the question. The diagram should roughly: |
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