11.188 Lab #1 In-Class Notes: =================================== website: http://mit.edu/11.188 this file: http://mit.edu/11.188/www/labs/lab1/lab1_inclass_notes.txt LAB #1: http://mit.edu/11.188/www/lab1 (1) Understand basic setup of QGIS and class datasets -- download class data and organize private workspace (2) Experiment with basic GIS functions and analysis -- Produce thematic map of median household income in Cambridge -- Overlay houses that sold in 1989 with symbol size proportional to price -- Explore classification and symbology choices -- Learn to do simple queries and filter unwanted attribute rows from QGIS calculations (3) Prepare PDF 'printout' of thematic map of Cambridge (4) Get familiar with QGIS help files and Google searches