Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Urban Studies and Planning
11.520: A Workshop on Geographic Information Systems
11.188: Urban Planning and Social Science Laboratory
Online Data, Project Work and Presentation Tips
April 28, 2021, Joseph Ferreira
Administrative
Project Title and Abstract due during Lab next Monday, May 3
Project work:
See feedback on Stellar
Talk to us today via breakouts
Have you obtained and explored your key datasets?
Project presentations on Monday, May 17, THREE WEEKS FROM NEXT MONDAY
Utilize office/lab hours: times and zoom links on Stellar
Today
Project presentation tips (using Cherrie Abbanat's slides)
Progress on projects (via one-on-one breakouts)
Project Presentation Tips
Brief (6-minute) presentation! plus a few minutes of discussion
Via screen-sharing on Zoom
See details, and past abstract examples, on 'projects' webpage:
http://mit.edu/11.188/www/projects
Cherrie Abbanat's
powerpoint slides
Tips on technical presentations and writeups
Beware: You won't have time to do all that Cherrie suggests
But, use zoom to record and review your 'dress rehearsal'
Group discussion about project and CI requirement
Help from the GIS Services group in the MIT Libraries
http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/
send email to gishelp@mit.edu as well as 11.520staff@mit.edu
Next few class sessions
Work individually on project
Discuss project focus and data issues with us
Project Scope
Project ideas:
Most of you are reasonably settled on a project topic
What about project scope and expectations
In-lab tests are an (abbreviated) example of a possible project
For example: What geographic and socio-economic characteristics explain county-level differences in results; how has this changed over a few elections
In general
Project has a broad topic but focuses on a piece with a spatial component that can contribute to a broader inquiry (beyond scope of class)
Project involves finding new datasets and/or learning some new tools and applying them to open-ended inquiry of student's choosing
Project could provide context and first step in a longer study you anticipate in future semesters
File organization and performance issues for project work
Redundancy can be good!
Read-only copy of original datasets
Local working copies
Keep many sequential QGXs: 11.188_proj_v1.mxd, _v2, _v3, ...
If you screw up one, there will be something to return to
Use multiple windows (especially on machines with big screens)
Be careful about CRS consistency across datasets
Open multiple QGIS sessions along an text editor
Just keep the file versions straight and remember only one app can have write access to a dataset or map document
And you may need to close files if locked by another application
Last modified 28 April 2021 [jf]
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