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Introduction to QGIS: Understanding and Presenting Spatial Data

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On Thursday 22nd January 2015, I ran a one day workshop on an Introduction to QGIS: Understanding and Presenting Spatial Data. We had 14 participants from a wide variety of backgrounds, academic areas and geographic locations. The course ran very well, and the participants seemed to enjoy taking the course as much as I enjoyed delivering it! If you are interested in attending this course in the future, please send me a message (using the contact form on this site) and I will add you to a list to hear about future courses.

I’ve attached the materials I used to this blog post (see below). My material available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en for details), which means that the material I created for this training session is free for anyone to use, as long as you attribute the material to me, and make any material you derive from this available under the same license. I would also ask you to let me know when you use my material, as it’s useful for me to know how many people are using it, and what sort of courses they are using it for.

Introduction to QGIS: Understanding and Presenting Spatial Data

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On Monday 17th November, I ran a day course on Spatial Data and QGIS with 15 participants. We had people from a wide range of backgrounds and interests, including geology, politics, health and many other disciplines. We looked at some of the theory behind GIS, such as projections and coordinate systems, as well as practical elements on how to use QGIS. I managed to get QGIS version 2.6 (Brighton) installed on the University systems, which only came out towards the end of October, so it was great that the participants could see and use the latest version. We also looked at the process of classifying data for cholopleth maps, including the important decisions to make when selecting colours, number of classes and method of classification.

I’ve attached the materials I used to this blog post (see below). I took the decision to make my material available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en for details), which means that the material I created for this training session is free for anyone to use, as long as you attribute the material to me, and make any material you derive from this available under the same license. I would also ask you to let me know when you use my material, as it’s useful for me to know how many people are using it, and what sort of courses they are using it for.

In this form, some of the resources will be more useful than others, but I hope they are helpful. Any comments are gratefully received, either via email, or through  comments below.

Happy GISing!

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