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Go

vernment90dn

Ma

ppingthe

Census

Lecture0:Introd

uctiontoSem

inar

SumeetaSrinivasan

ssr

inivasan@cga.harvard.e

du

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Outlin

eforToday

C

oursedescription

Objectives,lectureformat,e

valuationand

project,sche

dule

C

ourseoverview

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CourseObjectives

T

ousemapping

asananalyticaltechniqueto

study

C

ensusdata

T

oinvestigatetheuseofgeographic,

economicand

s

ocio-demograp

hicdatafromtheUSCensus

oenancee

researcp

rocess

rouge

useo

m

apsandspatialqueries

T

ointroduceba

sicGeographic

alInformationS

ystems

s

oftware

T

ointroducecartographictechniques

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Eva

luation

Labexercises

(5):

25%

5po

intseachforLa

bs1-5

F

inalproject:

55%

Prop

osal(5%),presentation(10%)andreport(40

%)

P

articipation:

20%

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StandardFormatforClasses

Lecture(1houro

rless)

Followedbyor

interspersedwithdiscussion

Discussion:basedonarticle

LabExercises(1-2

hours)

All

dueNov20th

2-?

hours(may

extendbeyond

classtimes)th

at

shouldbeideallyreturnedtoth

einstructorbefore

thenextlab

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FinalProject

Projectproposalb

yNovember

1st

Shouldincludespatialandnon-spatialdata

de

scription

Researchquestio

ns,

Proposedmethodology

ProjectpresentationonDecem

ber6th

ProjectsummaryreportJan1st

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Rea

dings

Required:

Un

lockingtheCensuswithGISb

yAlanPetersa

nd

He

atherMacDona

ld.

ESRIPress

(2005)

Ma

kingMaps:AV

isualGuideto

MapDesignforGISby

JohnKrygierand

DenisWood.T

heGuilfordPre

ss,

New

Yo

rk/London.

NewEdedition(2005)

Ma

ppingCensus2000:TheGeographyofU.S.

DiversitybyCynth

iaA.

BrewerandTrudyA.

Suchan.

ES

RIPressEditio

n

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CourseTopics

1.

IntroductiontoCen

sus

2.

Cen

susDataBasics

D

ataTypes

4.

Applications

Demography

Economics

D

atabases

3.

IntroducingMaps

G

IS

C

artography

Transportation

5.

ResearchMethods

WritingProposals

and

Papers

Quantitativemeth

ods

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Howthiscourse(might)fitintoyou

r

plano

fstudy

ProvidesgeneralIntroductiontoGIS

software

Providesyoumethod

ologicaltoolsifyouarelookingat

Providesyouwithan

opportunityto

exploresomer

ich

datas

etsevenifyou

rfutureresearc

hisnotspatial

Canc

ombinethepro

jectwithothercourseprojects

/

paper

s/thesis/intere

sts

Canu

seothermappingsoftware(G

oogleEarthetc

.)

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Out

line

C

oursedescription

Objectives,lectureformat,e

valuationand

project,sche

dule

C

ourseoverview

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Overv

iewOutlin

e

Whyisgeograp

hicinformatio

ndifferent?

WhatisGIS?

So

cialIm

licationsofMain

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TheV

ocabular

y

Geo

graphic

Earthssurfaceandnear-surface

Spa

tialanyspa

ce(including

geographic)

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GeographicInformationis:

Multidimensional

Voluminous

Requiresprojectiontoflatsurfac

e

Uniqueanalysismethods

Analysesrequire

dataintegration

Dataupdatesare

expensiveand

timeconsumin

g

Mapdisplaysrequirefastdatare

trieval

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GeographicInformationSystem

Co

ntainerofma

ps

Sp

atialdecision

supportsystem:

geographicinformation

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Plan

ningforE

mergencyEvacuation

Majornaturalandhuman-induced

eventsmay

nec

essitateareae

vacuations

GIS

canbeusedtocreateeffectiveevacuation

Distributionofpop

ulation

Streetmap

Modeldemandandimpactofbottlenecksonspe

ed

ofe

vacuationusingstandardGIS

networktools

Adjacency,conne

ctivity,shortestpathnetworkcalculation

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tdg

is.d

otd

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isiana

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tdg

is.d

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.lou

isiana

.gov/we

bsi

te/GIS

-T2006

.pp

t

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Example:

TheHisp

anicPopulation

:1990-2

000GrowthandChange

Source:www.sabresystems.com/whitep

apers/hispanic_population.pdf

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Example(cont)

Table

3demonstrates

thatthreeofthefourregions

experiencedmorethan50percentLatinopopulation

growthbetween1990

and2000.Asin

thepast,theWe

st

Source:www.sabresystems.com/whitep

apers/hispanic_population.pdf

experiencedthelarges

tnumericincrea

seofHispanics.

However,greaterprop

ortionalgrowth

intheLatino

populationoccurredin

theMidwestan

dSouth(81.0

percen

tand71.2percent,respectively)comparedtoth

e

North

andWest.

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Soc

ialImplicationsofG

IS(Maps

)

Fa

vorsgeneralization,

possiblyatexpenseof

minoritiesandindividuals

Us

eisnotalwaysneutralandcanbeapplied

to

m

taryan

nustrasurveance

Te

ndencytobe

technologica

lratherthan

hu

manneedfocused

Maintainsande

xtendsthestatusquoof

so

cietalpowerstructures

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Sourcewww.a

dver

sity.net/special/gerryma

nder_1.h

tm

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stions?