Welcome to your SHAD Crowdsourcing and Digital Mapping workshop

SHORTLINK TO THIS SITE: bit.ly/shad-mapping-exercise.

Hello! During today’s workshop, you’ll work with your fellow SHADs to gather, synthesize, and spatially analyze data that will help answer the question: Which areas of McMaster’s outdoors spaces are most ‘livable’ for students? Throughout today, we’ll explore this question and its connection to the concepts of sustainability, while building data collection and digital mapping skills.

Learning objectives

By the end of today’s workshop, you should be able to:

• Apply the tools used today to coordinate a crowdsourcing campaign.
• Describe and apply the principles of digital mapping to create effective maps.
• Explain the importance of tidy data.
• Use GIS software to perform spatial analyses and create static and web maps.

Today’s schedule

Today’s slides

Before we begin, follow the instructions on the preparation page.

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