GIS

GIS (Geographical Information Systems)¶

Class during these days will be led by Carolyn Talmadge of the Tufts DataLab.

These classes will introduce you to GIS software and applications. We will be using ArcGIS, a commercial platform that Tufts makes available through an online interface.

You might also be interested in QGIS, a free and open-source platform for organizing and analyzing spatial information — the beating heart of any GIS application.

QGIS provides a Python API, but we’ll just be focusing on the main application for now — hence why this is a plain Markdown file and not a Jupyter notebook.

If you want to get a head-start, follow the tutorial in the QGIS documentation.

Readings¶

• Jasnow et al. (2018)

• A Gentle Introduction to GIS: https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/

Homework¶

• Due before class on Wednesday, March 26: Discussion 7 - GIS
• Due before class on Monday, March 31: GIS Lab

Using ArcGIS and the tutorials provided in class, design and deploy a small GIS application on either a book of Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire or the Catalog of Ships in the Iliad (Book 2, lines 484–877).