GIS in EDS

What is it?

What is GIS?GIS = Geographic Information

Systems

GIS includes the following:

Why is GIS useful?GIS is an extremely powerful

analytic tool that allows users to:

GIS allows you to…

Display your data in its geographic context.

GIS allows you to…

Visualize your data, and understand it more quickly.

DBF

GIS allows you to…

Combine data from a variety of sources and examine their relationships.

Why EDS and GIS?

GIS is becoming more popular in the social sciences.Demand for GIS support on the Morningside campus increasing.

More GIS Support in EDS

EDS expanded its limited GIS support by hiring a GIS librarian in the fall of 2003.

GIS in Action“I need data on Chinatown.”

Community Districts

Community District 3

Clip Down to Area of Interest

Asian Population Density

Asian Population/Multi-racial Population Density

Asian Population/Overall Racial Breakdown

GIS and YouESRI softwareFree ESRI courses online

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/gis/esri-courses.html

GIS workshops in EDS http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/news/gis_workshops.html