Spatial Data 101: Onboarding with The Stanford Geospatial Center
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Get the basics of spatial data and geospatial tools with Stanford Geospatial Center, live and in person! Spatial Data 101: Onboarding to Stanford’s Spatial Data Resources Interested in working with spatial data at Stanford but not sure where to start? This introductory workshop provides a quick foundation in spatial data science while introducing the spatial data, software, imagery, and analysis resources available to the Stanford community through the Stanford Geospatial Center (SGC). We’ll begin with the fundamentals: What makes data spatial? Participants will learn about the two primary models for representing geographic information—vector and raster data—and how points, lines, polygons, grids, imagery, and their associated attributes are used to represent and analyze the world around us. From there, we’ll explore some of the possibilities of spatial analysis. How can we determine what is near what, what falls within a particular area, or where different conditions overlap? How
