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Introducing GIS for the Humanities

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Introducing GIS for the Humanities

Teacher: Patrick Gavin, Daniel Ihrmark, Ahmad M. Kamal, Ahmad M. Kamal, Marianne Ping Huang

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Introduction
Unit I: Introduction to the Spatial Humanities
  1.1 The Evolution of Spatial Thinking in the Humanities
  • 1.1.1 Early Foundations: The General Spatial Turn
  • 1.1.2 Theories of Space
  • 1.1.3 Emergence GIS and Maps as Cultural Artifacts
  • 1.1.4 The Geographic Turn in the New Millennium
  • 1.1.5 End of Unit Activity: from Text to Spatial Inquiry
  Drag-and-Drop activity on Spatial Theories
  Frankenstein Atlas Multiple Choice
Unit II: GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities
  2.1 Introducing GIS
  • 2.1.1 What is a Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • 2.1.2 Brief History of GIS
  2.2 Building a GIS Vocabulary
  • 2.2.1 Spatial Thinking I: Decomposition & Scale
  • 2.2.2 Spatial Thinking II: Objects & Fields
  • 2.2.3 Representing the World I: Standards
  • 2.2.4 Representing the World II: Attributes & Tables
  • 2.2.5 Representing the World III: Location
  Interpreting Different Scales
  Why Scale Matters
  Why Objects & Fields Matter
  Why Categories Matter
  2.3 Translating the Humanities Object
  • 2.3.1 Representing Geographic Concepts Digitally
  • 2.3.2 Map Layers and Projects
  • 2.3.3 Dealing with Error and Uncertainty
  Expressed as Vector
  Expressed as Raster
Unit III: Step-by-step GIS guide
  3.1 Background & Setting-up
  • 3.1.1 Background
  • 3.1.2 Downloading QGIS and QuickMapServices
  • 3.1.3 Getting the Data
  FrankensteinAtlas_data
  IceSheet_data
  3.2 Working with QGIS
  • 3.2.1 Getting started with QGIS
  • 3.2.2 Importing and interacting with CSV data
  • 3.2.3 Importing and interacting with shapefiles
  • 3.2.4 Adding polygons
  • 3.2.5. Creating layers by attribute and applying a heatmap
  • 3.2.6 Creating layouts
  3.3 Concluding the Walkthrough
  • 3.3.1 Final Reflections
  • 3.3.2 Bibliography of Sources and Resources
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