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QGIS for Humanities and Social Science

ATX GIS Day
November 13, 2019

QGIS for Humanities and Social Science

Jared Ware, Army Futures Command

ATX GIS Day

November 13, 2019
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  1. JayOSpatial (Twitter) Jaredleeware (LinkedIn)
    QGIS for the Humanities and Social Sciences
    “Using Open Source Data with Open Source Software”
    Jared Ware, GISP

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  2. Agenda
    • Purpose
    • Background
    • A Sports Example Using QGIS and Open Source Data
    • A Public Policy Example Using QGIS and Open Source Data
    • Resources
    • Questions

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  3. Purpose
    • Provide ideas for using open source software and data
    • To create geospatial products
    • In social sciences and the humanities
    • Use recent geospatial projects dealing with public policy
    • Texas policy
    • Texas data
    • Build a credible data set from open source data
    • Obtained from a validated public entity
    • GIS process provides a solution

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  4. Background
    • Academic
    • Workshop - Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis
    • Conference - Gerrymandering GIS Project (NACIS 2017) by UT-Austin
    • Accreditation - open source requirements for undergraduate curriculum
    • Practical
    • Research: Addresses needs for humanities and social science crowd
    • Visualization: Data on a map is more optimal than data in a table
    • $$$$: Free Software / Free Internet / Free Storage / Free Data
    Workshop Conference Accreditation
    Research Visualization $$$$

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  5. What Color Is A Tennis Ball?
    • https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/0
    2/what-color-tennis-ball-green-yellow/523521/
    • “Yellow, obviously, I thought, and voted…Of
    nearly 30,000 participants, 52 percent said a
    tennis ball is green, 42 percent said it’s yellow,
    and 6 percent went with “other.”
    • “…how we label a tennis ball is determined both by
    perceptual and cognitive factors: the actual physical
    light entering your eye and ... knowledge about
    what people have typically labeled the objects.”
    • What does this mean for a GIS practitioner, a Digital
    Cartographer, or a Data Scientist?

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  6. What Color Is A Tennis Ball?
    • https://www.rapidtables.com/web/color/Yellow_Color.html
    What color does it need to be to get the point across? Using software and data to create the desired effect.
    Color Scheme
    Symbology

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  7. Potential GIS Projects: Sports (Tennis)
    • Types of Humanities Projects
    • University of Texas Men’s Tennis Team – “2019 National Championship Season”
    • Proliferation of tennis court construction in the late 1970s
    • Top 100 professional players each year by country
    • Types of Social Science Projects
    • Tennis industry revenue by state
    • Most popular tennis shoes by geolocated Instagram posts
    • Tennis facility locations and socioeconomics
    Data Mining
    Data
    Formatting GIS Product

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  8. QGIS and Open Source Data
    From Sports to Public Policy
    • …proposed well site is located
    within 1500 feet of the property
    line of a child care facility,
    private school, or primary or
    secondary public school.
    • Executive Agency: Railroad
    Commission of Texas (RRC)
    • Data Sources:
    • Railroad Commission of Texas
    • Texas Education Agency (TEA)
    • Texas Department of Family and
    Protective Services
    The Spatial Component

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  9. QGIS Map Options & Plugins
    • Open QGIS
    • Version 3.10
    • Plugins
    • Manage and
    Install Plugins
    • MMQGIS
    • Add a Map
    • OSM
    • OSM Type

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  10. Schools (Texas)
    • Go to the TEA Website
    • Select the Current Schools file
    • Download the file (zip)
    • Spreadsheet
    • KML
    • Shapefile
    • Geodatabase
    • Unzip and Import into QGIS
    • Layer - Add Layer – Add Vector Layer
    • Click the box next to the layer to make it visible
    • Double click the layer to open the Layer Properties and Symbology
    • Select a symbol and color scheme
    • Determine opacity (0% to 100%) and size
    • Open the attributes
    • Right click on the Layer
    • Open attribute table

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  11. Wells (Texas)

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  12. Child Care Centers (Texas)
    Use QGIS to geocode
    the address information
    &
    Convert it to a
    shapefile
    The child care centers are
    now features and attributes
    in QGIS

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  13. QGIS – Layers of Information

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  14. Reprojection and Buffer
    Reprojected from geographic (degrees) to a projected system
    (New projection: NAD83 / Conus Albers)
    “proposed well site is located within 1500 feet of the property line of a child care facility, private school, or primary or secondary public school.”

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  15. QGIS Buffer Tool

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  16. MMQGIS Buffer Tool

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  17. • Focus on the specific issue and communicate the solution visually
    • Familiarity with GIS software and functionality (QGIS videos / blogs)
    • Data mining, data downloading, data conversion, data formatting
    • Create a credible data set
    • Document the process (repeat the process as a quality check)
    Keys to GIS Project Success
    “Open source data and open source software”

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  18. Resources
    QGIS and Open Source
    Using QGIS
    • https://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/tools-of-the-trade/use-gis-humanities-social-
    sciences/
    • https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/case_studies/uruguay_mides.html
    • https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/introducing-qgis/38833
    • https://www.gislounge.com/how-to-geocode-addresses-using-qgis/
    • https://infoguides.rit.edu/dhss/tools/mapping
    Academic Workshops
    • https://gis.harvard.edu/gis-humanities-and-social-sciences
    • http://events.cornell.edu/event/intro_to_qgis_for_humanities_and_social_sciences
    • https://www.vassar.edu/news/events/2019-2020/191015-start-mapping-with-qgis-
    workshop.html
    Texas State Agencies
    Railroad Commission of Texas Public GIS Viewer
    • https://gis.rrc.texas.gov/GISViewer/
    Texas Education Agency Public Open Data Site
    • http://schoolsdata2-tea-texas.opendata.arcgis.com/
    Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
    • http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/child_care/search_texas_child_care/ppfacilitysearchd
    aycare.asp
    Texas Legislature Online
    • https://capitol.texas.gov/

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  19. Questions
    “how we label a tennis ball is determined both by perceptual and cognitive factors”
    Thank
    you for
    attending

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