Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Urban Studies and Planning

11.188: Urban Planning and Social Science Laboratory

11.205: Introduction to Spatial Analysis

Review and Preparation for Monday's Test

March 24, 2021

Administrative Notes

Lab #4 (vector-based spatial analysis) due today
Homework Set #2, part 2 (census data SQL queries) extended until Wednesday, March 31
Test in-lab on Monday, March 22

Last two years (test+answers) available online
Stellar has updated test19data.zip and test20data/zip with QGIS startup
Work through one to review and save the other as a practice test

Come to Friday 12:30-2:00 pm office hours with test and review questions
Comments on homework (Rounaq)

Review of semester (through Lab #4 and Homework #2)

'Crib sheet' with topics, key points, and relevant exercises and homework

Review: Testprep2021.pdf

Practice tests from 2019 and 2020

Use startup QGIS project document to get started

instead of ArcGIS

Add Excel spreadsheets and/or CSV-formatted tables as needed

instead of tables in MS-Access

Join tables to one another and/or to map layers in QGIS

Using 'Graphics' tools in QGIS toolbox

Illustrate with scatterplots

MHVALUE vs. MED_HH_INC
POPULATION vs. LANDACRE

Finish raster analysis notes from last week

Notes from Lecture #5 (Raster Analysis)

Illustrate GIS application

Ferreira, J., Mi Diao, and J. Xu, (2013) "Estimating the Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Implications of Alternative Metropolitan Growth Scenarios: A Boston Example," Transactions in GIS, 17(5): 645–660.
Available in Materials section of Stellar under 'readings'

Created by Joseph Ferreira, 24 March 2021
Last modified March 2021 by Joseph Ferreira

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