Practical information, specific tools, regulatory processes, and analytic methods useful in the practice of public sector planning at the local level.

With the recent explosion in the availability of digitized text, social scientists increasingly are turning to computational tools for the analysis of text as data. In this three-credit course, students will first learn how to convert text to formats suitable for analysis. From there, the course will introduce and proceed through tutorials on a variety of natural language processing approaches to the treatment of text-as-data.

This class serves as an introduction to Geographic Information Science (GIS). GIS is the science of spatial relationships, linking data to locations to explore relations between objects. Based in geographic thought and emerging from initial applications in natural resource management, GIS has evolved to be a universally applicable way of thinking and set of knowledge, skills, and practices. The goals of this course are to teach you basic GIS concepts through practice and theory, to enable you to make useful and meaningful contributions to various disciplines through spatial analysis.

This class serves as an introduction to Geographic Information Science (GIS). GIS is the science of spatial relationships, linking data to locations to explore relations between objects. Based in geographic thought and emerging from initial applications in natural resource management, GIS has evolved to be a universally applicable way of thinking and set of knowledge, skills, and practices. The goals of this course are to teach you basic GIS concepts through practice and theory, to enable you to make useful and meaningful contributions to various disciplines through spatial analysis.