Statistics for GIS Professionals
What you'll learn
- understand the basics of statistics for use in GIS
- understand the different kinds of data that GIS analysts can use for statistics, and any limitations they may pose
- learn about the geographic research process, including hypothesis formulation and validation of statistical tests
- learn way to perform and assess descriptive statistics for geographic data
- learn inferential statistical techniques for differences, relationships, and spatial considerations
Requirements
- students should be familiar with GIS
Description
what people are saying about this workshop:
Just a quick note to say thank you for your workshop yesterday at the GIS Conference. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was probably one of the best overview classes in statistics I've ever taken, and certainly one of the very best classes in geoststistics. Your examples are so clear and concise and cut right to the heart of the matter. It was a whirlwind tour, and I look forward to reviewing your videos again.
This is an introductory workshop on statistics and GIS that I have successfully taught at professional one-day GIS conferences. The workshop will help you understand the statistical techniques used in GIS, and some basic theory and background so that you can use statistics in an intelligent way. This is less of a hands-on workshop as there is so much to cover, and is similar to what you might attend at a professional GIS conference.
I created this workshop in response to GIS professionals wanting to know about how to properly use statistics in their work. So, this is a nice balance of both GIS and statistics, but mostly statistics in an easily digestible 7 hour workshop - you can easily work through this on a Saturday, or perhaps 2 evenings in order to get a better understanding of statistics and how they are used in GIS.
The actual university course I teach on this topic includes 45 hours of lecture, 30 hours of lab, with numerous homework assignments and guided reading - most professionals don't have time for that kind of commitment. Clearly, you won't be an expert at statistics in GIS without spending lots of time practicing, but this workshop will get you started, and I've included lots of GIS examples to illustrate how to properly use statistics in your GIS work.
Who this course is for:
- GIS professionals looking to integrate statistical analysis into their work
- Data scientists who want to learn how to use statistics with geographic data.
- Academics
- Geographers
Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 4,092 Reviews
- 15,189 Students
- 21 Courses
Dr. Arthur J. Lembo, Jr. is an educator with a passion for GIS and almost 30 years of GIS industry experience. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the prestigious New York State Chancellors award for Excellence in Teaching (2006), and the Maryland Board of Regents Teaching Award (2018) - both of these awards are the highest awards in academia for both States.
Currently, Dr. Lembo is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at Salisbury University, where he is also the Technical Director of the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative. Dr. Lembo has published numerous academic papers on GIS, authored a leading textbook on Statistical Problem Solving in Geography, and conducted sponsored research for organizations like the National Science Foundation, NASA, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Kellogg Foundation.