[OKGIS] OKC GIS Workshop - Feb 13

[Gina Clemmer]

We still have seats left for the Feb 13th workshop. The Feb 12th workshop if
full.  Below is the press release for this workshop. You can access the
short announcement here:
http://www.urban-research.info/workshops/okc-gis.htm

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New Urban Research, Inc. Announces Mapping Oklahoma Communities GIS and
Analysis Workshops

Oklahoma City, OK -- Mapping Oklahoma Communities will be the focus of
beginner-level workshops offered in Oklahoma City to teach the fundamentals
of using GIS and Census data for community analysis. Presented by New Urban
Research Inc. the workshop is designed for social service providers,
academic researchers, urban planners and anyone who performs community
demographic analysis for governmental or private organizations.

“Mapping Oklahoma Communities: Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis”
will be offered on February 12th and 13th in Oklahoma City. Each workshop is
one day and costs $399 per person. No previous GIS experience is necessary.
Information and registration are available at www.urban-research.info.

“Any organization that seeks federal funding to perform public health,
economic or educational development is required to provide demographic
analysis on populations within specific geographic areas,” said Gina
Clemmer, President of New Urban Research. “We teach students how to access
Census data files online and then use the GIS to extract specific
demographic information and map the results down to the neighborhood level.”

New Urban Research, a professional social research organization, customizes
the GIS exercises and demonstrations in each class with geographic and
mapping data relating to the state where the workshop is being held. During
the class, participants will be shown how to download Census data relating
to poverty, race, language, education and other variables for their
communities and integrate these files with their own data sets for analysis
in the GIS.

Using ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 software, participants will leave the class with a
thorough understanding of three core GIS applications:

Thematic Mapping – Attendees will create color-coded maps of their data that
displays information trends.

Geocoding – Attendees will map the addresses of their projects, clients or
incident areas.

Spatial Analysis – Attendees will extract and map subsets of variables from
Census data.

Workshop participants will also receive a free 30-day subscription to the
Shapefile Warehouse, an archive of Census Bureau data in GIS-ready data
files. For every county in the United States, New Urban Research has
obtained the 20 most common geographies (Street Networks, Political
Boundaries, Census Blocks/Tracts, Traffic, etc.) from 2005 Census TIGER
files and converted them to ESRI shapefile formats ready to import into a
GIS. Participants may also purchase ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 site licenses from New
Urban Research following the workshop.

Introducing more than 6,000 participants to GIS technology in the last year
alone, New Urban Research receives high praise for its hands-on workshops.
According to a Representative of the Women’s Prison Association in New York
City, “[The workshop provided a] very clear and comprehensive presentation
on how to create analytically useful and aesthetical maps. I like the
structure of the workshop, the relevance of the exercises and the additional
materials and online resources.”

About New Urban Research Inc.

New Urban Research is a professional social research organization with an
emphasis on geographic information systems (GIS). It specializes in offering
one-day workshops for service providers, planners and researchers who want
to analyze their communities with Census Data and GIS in the areas of
health, poverty, housing, discrimination, and other advocacy work. Along
with public workshops, New Urban Research offers customized workshops for
agencies looking to train a large group of employees to map and analyze
their own data. New Urban Research is an ESRI Business Partner. For more
information, visit www.urban-research.info.

Gina Clemmer
New Urban Research, Inc.
877.241.6576 | www.urban-research.info