Welcome to your SHAD Crowdsourcing and Digital Mapping workshop

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

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: How ‘livable’ are McMaster’s outdoor spaces for McMaster members? Throughout today, we’ll explore this question and its connection to the concepts of sustainability, accessibility, and community.

Learning objectives

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

• Describe the topic of sustainability and its various facets; explain the connections between facets.
• Apply the tools used today to coordinate a crowdsourcing campaign
• 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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