Part 2: Hands-On Workbook

What to Expect from Each Chapter

Chapter 8: Planning Scenario focuses on describing the problem or enquiry, thinking through the goals, context, data collection,

Chapter 9:  Collecting and Cleaning the Data will walk through finding and preparing data, for analysis.

Chapter 10: Adding Data and Symbolizing Data describes how to add data to QGIS to describe the project study area and basic symbology.

Chapter 11: Curating Your Dataset through Selecting Feature Selection describes several methods for isolating features of interest, using manual selection, selection by attributes, and selection by location.

Chapter 12. Basic Data Management focuses on joining tables to features, creating joins between features based on location, merging data, clipping data, and editing features.

Chapter 13. Thematic, Choropleth Maps walks through how to use data classification in practice to describe numeric data.

Chapter 14: Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) introduces using the KDE algorithm to understand the geographic magnitude of features in a study area.

Chapter 15. Buffer Analysis and Points in Polygons describes how to create a radius around features to understand what falls inside a distance.

Chapter 16. Communicating the Message describes more about symbology, labeling, layout and map essentials.