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Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025Ìý

Time: 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.Ìý

Location: Dana Porter Library Computer Lab (Room 329)Ìý

Facilitators: Markus Wieland and Eva DodsworthÌý

GIS is a multi-disciplinary tool that is widely used across campus. Join this one-hour session to learn how you can incorporate GIS in your research, coursework and thesis.

This workshop, a combination of presentation, demonstration, and question & answer session, will discuss what GIS is and how it relates to demographics, business intelligence, logistics and statistical analysis, and provide examples of analysis tools and how they relate to different research.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:
•ÌýÌý ÌýUnderstand how the usual datatypes and spatial datatypes are used together
•ÌýÌý ÌýLearn the advantages of spatial components in datasets
•ÌýÌý ÌýUnderstand the importance of projections

This in-person workshop has limited capacity; please register to reserve your seat. If you have accommodation requests or questions, reach out to Eva Dodsworth (edodsworth@uwaterloo.ca) with your needs. Ìý

Register now

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Facilitators

Markus Wieland is the GIS Specialist at the Geospatial Centre, Dana Porter Library.

Eva Dodsworth is the Geospatial Data Services Librarian at the Geospatial Centre, Dana Porter Library.