CyberFaCES

Modules

• Introduction to Foundations

  Module 1 • 30 minutes

  The other modules in this curriculum assume a little background: how to run a Python notebook, what a table and a map layer are, and how to load data into QGIS. This module teaches exactly that, from zero. If you have never written code or opened a GIS, start here.

• Getting Started with QGIS: Your First Map

  Module 2 • 1 hour

  Loading data from the web, styling layers, a choropleth map and a finished layout.

• Tables, Joins and Selections in QGIS

  Module 3 • 1 hour

  Joining Census tables, rates in the Field Calculator, and selecting by expression.

• Map Your County in QGIS

  Module 4 • 1 hour

  Capstone: the same map, made in QGIS. A local food bank wants a one-page map of where households without a car live in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, to plan a delivery service. You will deliver it as a PNG image that a reader with no GIS experience can understand.

• Introduction to Data Management

  Module 5 • 40 minutes

  The research data lifecycle, why geospatial data needs extra care, and data management plans

• Geospatial Data Models

  Module 6 • 45 minutes

  Vector and raster data, topology, resolution, and choosing a representation

• Geospatial File Formats

  Module 7 • 45 minutes

  Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF and others, and which to use when

• Coordinate Reference Systems

  Module 8 • 45 minutes

  Datums, geographic and projected systems, EPSG codes, and defining versus reprojecting

• Designing Your Data

  Module 9 • 50 minutes

  Data dictionaries, field types, domains, unique IDs and relationships

• Organizing, Versioning and Backing Up

  Module 10 • 45 minutes

  Folder structures, file names, portable projects, version control and the 3-2-1 rule

• Data Quality

  Module 11 • 45 minutes

  Elements of spatial data quality, geometry errors, and quality checks

• Introduction to Data Collection

  Module 12 • 35 minutes

  When to use existing data or collect your own; vector and raster data; judging data quality; FAIR data

• Finding Data in Repositories

  Module 13 • 35 minutes

  Where to find free vector data, how to read metadata, and how to load data from the web

• Acquiring Imagery: Scanned Maps and Satellite Data

  Module 14 • 50 minutes

  Scanned historic maps, declassified CORONA imagery and Sentinel-2 satellite data

• Collecting Data in the Field

  Module 15 • 40 minutes

  Methods and apps, designing a schema, GPS accuracy, ethics and quality checks

• Introduction to Data Processing

  Module 16 • 35 minutes

  What happens between download and analysis, and how to keep processing repeatable

• Cleaning and Preparing Data in QGIS

  Module 17 • 1 hour

  Fix identifiers, types, special codes, duplicates and geometry problems with Refactor Fields and Check Validity

• Geoprocessing in QGIS

  Module 18 • 1 hour

  Buffers, selecting by location, clip, intersect, dissolve, areal weighting and nearest features in QGIS

• Raster Processing in QGIS

  Module 19 • 1 hour

  Map algebra, reclassification and zonal statistics with the Raster Calculator and Zonal statistics

• Automating Repeated Steps in QGIS

  Module 20 • 1 hour

  The Processing History, the Model Designer and batch processing

• Cartography Checklists

  Module 21 • 1 hour

  The questions to answer before making any map: audience, message, data, medium

• Fundamentals of Map Design

  Module 22 • 1 hour

  Map elements, color schemes, projections, thematic map types, normalization and classification

• Cartography in QGIS

  Module 23 • 1 hour

  The same map in QGIS: rule-based styling and labeling, a print layout with a locator inset, and export

• Accessibility in Map Design

  Module 24 • 1 hour

  Designing maps for people with color vision deficiency, testing palettes and writing alt text

• Park Access in Lafayette (QGIS)

  Module 25 • 1 hour

  Who can walk to a public park in Lafayette and West Lafayette, and are children and households without a car as well served? In QGIS

• Grocery Access Part 1: Mapping Stores with QField

  Module 26 • 45 minutes

  How a team maps grocery stores in the field with QField (demonstration)

• Grocery Access Part 2: Network Analysis in QGIS

  Module 27 • 1 hour

  How far people must travel to a supermarket along the road network in Lafayette and West Lafayette, in QGIS

• Introduction to Data Curation

  Module 28 • 40 minutes

  What curation is, the curation lifecycle, public access policies and the FAIR principles

• Metadata

  Module 29 • 50 minutes

  Kinds of metadata, essential geospatial elements, and standards such as ISO 19115, DataCite and DDI

• Documentation

  Module 30 • 45 minutes

  README files, codebooks, provenance, and citing data

• Preservation

  Module 31 • 45 minutes

  Durable formats, checksums, the OAIS model, trustworthy repositories and very large data

• Sharing and Publishing Data

  Module 32 • 50 minutes

  Choosing a repository, DOIs, licenses, access levels, and the FAIR and CARE principles

• Ethics and Sensitive Location Data

  Module 33 • 50 minutes

  Re-identification, aggregation and geomasking, sensitive places, consent and review

Instructor

Aniket Dev Roy

61 modules