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New Urban Research's Web Workshop SeriesWhat are "Web Workshops"Web workshops are workshop delivered online instead of live. Participants need a high speed internet connection, speakers or head phones and workshop materials to complete the workshops. Web workshops are offered as a part of NUR's subscription service. Once you have purchased a subscription ($99.00 US for 90 day access) you will have access to the web workshop Analyzing Your Community: Local Demographic Analysis Workshop. Other workshops are in development.
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Workshop ContentThis workshop is very similar to the live version. It is broken out in to modules which participants can replay as often as they like.Audience This fast paced, hands on workshop was designed for human service providers, neighborhood activists, grant writers, planners or anyone who would like to easily look up and analyze demographic characteristics of populations and neighborhoods using the Census and American Community Survey. Exercises are designed for beginners. Objectives
This is a basic, technical workshop that will teach you how to access, analyze, and make online maps using 2000/1990 Census and 2003 American Community Survey data.
Workshop OutlineModule 1: Understanding the Census and ACSTypes of data collected in the Census and American Community Survey Differences between Summary Files 1 - 4 and when it's appropriate to use which data set Learn what the 2003 American Community Survey has to offer and the differences between the ACS and the Census Accuracy and under count rates for Census data Description of Census geographies What data is available at what geography What to do when your target area boundaries do not match Census geography boundaries Module 2 : Extracting and Analyzing Demographic Data for the American Factfinder How to efficiently extract, local, disaggregated, custom Census data and 2003 American Community Survey data Explore a wide range of variables including poverty, language, age, income and housing variables Construct a Community Change Profile for a community of your choice using several core demographic variables Use common formulas to express data in interesting and compelling ways Module 3: Things You Should Know Recommendations on ways to analyze Race/Ethnicity, Income, Age, Housing and Population Examples of how to present this type of information Common and helpful formulas for working with the data sets above Module 4 : Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) What is GIS, how is it commonly used Downloading and working with free shapefiles for your analysis, where to get various types of shapefiles Working with ArcExplorer, bringing in shapefiles, creating thematic maps in ArcExplorer Creating maps online through American Factfinder |
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