Introduction to ArcGIS Online (UCANR)

Friday, January 27th, 2023 from 1:00-4:00 pm: online, free.

This workshop is designed for participants with little to no GIS or web mapping experience. Following a brief lecture, the workshop will include an interactive exercise that will have you manage, load, analyze and stylize fire data to build your own web maps with ArcGIS Online. This exercise will conclude with you exploring the various options for publishing a web map online; including using story map templates.

Requirements: Participants must have an ArcGIS Online account set up prior to the workshop.

GIS & Mapping: Where to Start (Library) part of UC Love Data Week

Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 pm: online, free.

Interested in digital mapping and GIS (geographic information science), but not sure where to start? Have some experience, but want to learn more about what the campus has to offer? This virtual workshop is for you! We'll provide an overview of the GIS and digital mapping landscape as a whole, including: which tools are out there and how to choose the right one for your needs, common terms used in the field, resources for learning how to get started mapping, and where to go to find data to create your first project.

Requirements: No experience or special software is required to participate in this workshop.

R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2

Thursday, February 16th, 2023 from 10:00-1:00 pm: online, free.

Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 from 10:00-1:00 pm: online, free.

Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research. This workshop focuses on fundamental operations for reading, writing, manipulating and mapping vector data, which encodes location as points, lines and polygons.

Requirements: D-Lab's R Fundamentals or equivalent knowledge; previous experience with base R is assumed and basic familiarity with the tidyverse.

Introduction to ArcGIS Pro (UCANR) part of UC Love Data Week

Friday, February 17th, 2023 from 1:00-4:00 pm: online, free

This workshop is designed for participants with little to no GIS experience. Following a brief lecture, the workshop will include an interactive exercise that will have you loading, creating, analyzing and stylizing spatial data, while building your own map with ArcGIS Pro. This exercise will conclude with you exploring the various online data repositories that are available through ArcGIS Online.

Requirements: Participants must have ArcGIS Pro installed with an active license on their personal computer prior to the workshop. Sorry, this application does not function on Apple OSX or MacOS machines.

Cartography in ArcGIS Pro (Esri Training)

February 22nd - April 5th, 2023: online, free

Once, only cartographers made maps. Today, anyone can. Still, cartographers can teach people to make better maps, just as chefs can show people how to prepare better meals. With coaching from accomplished cartographers and practical, hands-on exercises, you'll become a smarter mapmaker, ready to go beyond the defaults and produce engaging maps that communicate with impact.

Requirements: Both ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online are required. ESRI can provide free access during course if needed.

R Geospatial Fundamentals: Raster Data (D-Lab)

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 from 10:00-1:00 pm: online, free

Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research. This workshop focuses on fundamental operations for reading, writing, manipulating and mapping vector data, which encodes location as points, lines and polygons. Topics: Raster Data, Raster concepts, Raster data structures (the raster package), Mapping with raster and vector data, Spatial analysis of raster and vector data, Raster reclassification, Raster stacks and raster algebra.

Requirements: Recommended (but not required) to take the 2-part vector-based version of D-Lab's R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data

Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks in ArcGIS Pro (UCANR)

Friday, April 7th, 2023 from 1:00-4:00 pm: online, free

This workshop is designed for participants with little to no GIS or coding experience. Following a brief presentation, the workshop will include an interactive exercise that will have you working on an operation with the GUI, then the same exercise using Python within ArcGIS Pro. This exercise will conclude with you being able to begin to program GIS operations within ArcGIS Pro.

Requirements: To complete the hands-on exercises, participants will need a licensed copy of ArcGIS Pro. All UC students and faculty should have access to ArcGIS Pro through their campus. For others, information will be shared on how to obtain a temporary ArcGIS Pro license.

History of Cartography (California Rare Book School)

July 24th - July 28th: in-person (SF Bay Area), tuition is $1,200, but scholarships are available

This course is designed to provide a general overview of the history of mapping in the western world as well as the use of cartographic resources in modern day teaching and research. Topics will include an introduction to maps (projections, scale, visualization of information), the history of map printing; the evolution of European mapping; the role of maps as cultural and social objects; the wide variety and type of maps produced (nautical charts, city views and plans, topographic, land ownership, globes, celestial charts, etc.); conservation issues; reference materials and cartobibliographies, and the role of museums and libraries as stewards of the content. The class will also explore how antiquarian maps are used by present day researchers, teachers, and students. Course participants will interact with physical examples from archives and special collections, as well as examine maps in the larger historical context though an exhibition visit. This class will also explore and critically examine digital cartographic repositories from around the world and the role they can play in education and research.

Requirements: None