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Intro to GIS Pre-Class Poll 4/17/2019: Summary

1. What city and country are you from? (ex: Tokyo, Japan)

  • Choice Value
    Houston, TX 1
    Los Angeles, USA 1
    Santa Cruz, California 1
    San Diego, California 1
    Los Angeles, California, United States 1
    Denver, United States 1
    santa monica, california 1
    Los Angeles, CA 1
    Los Angeles, California 2
    Berkeley, CA 1
    Denver, USA 1
    San Jose, United States of America 1
    Arcadia, California, USA 1
    Los Angeles, 1
    Nanchang,China 1
    New Delhi, India 1
    Toronto/Belize City 1
    Seoul. Korea 1
    Branchville, NJ 1
    Worcester, Massachusetts 1
    Chicago, IL, USA 1
    St, Louis, Missouri, USA 1
    Temuco, Chile 1
    Redlands, CA 1
    Viroqua, WI, USA 1
    Cali, Colombia 1
    San Diego, CA 1
    Miami, USA 1
    Osaka, Japan 1
    Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2
    Chicago, USA 2
    Shashemene, USA 1
    Palm Desert, USA 1
    Mumbai, India 1
    Los Angeles 1
    Bethlehem, PA 1
    Westbrook, Connecticut 1
    Houston, Texas, USA 1
    From San Francisco, USA 1
    LA 1

2. What do you expect to learn from this workshop?

  • Choice Value
    The basics of GIS 1
    Geospacial mapping to the Zip code level and how to apply that to health services research 1
    GIS basics, how to input data and basic manipulations. Adding multiple layers and conduct analyses would be great if that would be a follow up. 1
    What to use GIS mapping for 1
    Refresher on GIS 1
    Where to start in GIS for further self guided study 1
    how to work with GIS 1
    How to use GIS and map data 1
    overview of what can be done with ArcGIS 2
    whatever 1
    Location data processing and useful ways to display/analyze location data 1
    The foundations of GIS 1
    How to plot points/outline an area on a map 1
    Introduction to GIS and main features. Potential use for my dissertation data. 1
    introduction and basic operation of GIS 1
    I'm a Screenwriter and I'm writing a film about a scientist who uses GIS to find some stolen water in a water-stressed city so I would like to know the basics of what GIS software looks like and how it works. Also perhaps, the different positions a GIS operator might have. 1
    basic skills in GIS 1
    how to draw heat map, how to visualize data 1
    What kinds of questions can you ask, that would call for mapping? 1
    A little bit about how to map data and us GIS tools 1
    basic mapping skills 1
    If I have spacial data (lat, long? other kinds?) how to map it 1
    Better representation f data for publication purposes 1
    Basics of GIS mapping 1
    The basics of GIS. How it might help me answer questions I have about how place matters in my research area. 1
    Georeference historical data 1
    How to map data for use in public policy 1
    how to overlay different layers to analyze data 1
    What you all are working on! 1
    Map 2
    GIS 2
    To become familiar with GIS 1
    A basic uderstanding of how to use GIS 1
    GIS 1
    Mapping 1
    basic intro 1
    Mapping public health data 1
    intro to GIS 1
    Understand GIS in a geography perspective 1
    gis 1

3. In a few words, what is your research about?

  • Choice Value
    emotional geographies in pop culture surrounding immigrants and the Other 1
    Outcomes in Lung Diseases and Lung Transplant 1
    Urban Ecology, so GIS data is used for assessing land use areas, species ranges, wildfire hazard areas, etc. 1
    none right now 1
    I study racial color-lines along educational, economic, and other social indicators. 1
    Water pumping plant emissions 1
    computer vision 1
    Homelessness and housing policy issues/community development 1
    land use and activity patterns of wild squirrels 2
    why more people do not travel or migrate internationally 1
    Maternal and child health outcomes in diverse populations 1
    Educational trajectories of recently arrived immigrants in the U.S. 1
    The traits to lead to innovation in marmots 1
    Politics and Migration in Latin America 1
    health science 1
    Satellites that are used for water-resource management. 1
    language mapping 1
    Chinese border maps 1
    youth employment-- inequalities in access to employment 1
    Library and Information Studies; Digital Humanities 1
    API access to SNAP (Food Stamp Program) 1
    Educational inequities in STEM 1
    Climate Science: precipitation extremes and Tropical ocean-atmosphere coupled variability 1
    I study Japanese environmental history and environmentalism in the 1970s 1
    Young adults aging out of foster care and their transition to housing. 1
    Territorial legacies of colonial institutions in Latin America 1
    heath access, education, health literacy among low-income communities 1
    endangered tidewater goby ecosystems 1
    Nuclear energy and its effect on hosting communities 1
    History 2
    Over-policing in California 2
    knowledge production and history 1
    Invasive plant species 1
    MBA 1
    Injury Prevention 1
    Youth meaning making of race and place 1
    public health 1
    higher education 1
    N/a 1
    n/a 1

4. Have you used GIS before?

  • Choice Value
    Yes, all the time 1
    Sometimes 5
    Never 37

    Total Participants Count =

    43