Posts under ‘GIS’

“The Census” isn’t one, monolithic chunk of data. Rather, it is a collection of different data sets collected or created for different purposes.

Here is a handout (PDF) discussing three of the main sources for population and housing data:

The Decennial Census
The American Community Survey
and the Population Estimates Program

The handout further explains how to obtain the data [...]

Gothos is a geography librarian’s blog that will cover topics like: geographic information systems (GIS), maps, cartography, geographic information literacy, demographic data, data sources, data processing, librarianship, urban affairs, and some other things thrown in at random. It also includes links to data and resources and will eventually include it’s own locally hosted data and [...]

The New York Census Research Data Center is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Census Workshop Series. This year’s workshops, which will focus on mapping and spatial analysis, will be held at Baruch College as follows:

March 25th, Mapping, GIS and Spatial Data: U.S. Census and Beyond
April 8th, Hands-on Introduction to ArcGIS
May 8th, Spatial Statistics, [...]

Need to create a map showing the number of bars and restaurants operating in a certain zip code? Or do you need to analyze asthma rates by neighborhood? If you have the data, ArcGIS can help you do this.
ArcGIS is a commercial Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software package produced by a company called ESRI. It is used for geographic [...]