Module 1 - Course Introduction | SOC 4650 & 5650: Introduction to GIS

Module 1 - Course Introduction

Before Class:
- Complete the Course Onboarding tasks (see Blackboard - Module 1 > Course Onboarding)
- Complete the Meeting 01 preparatory readings, videos, and entry ticket
  - Coral, Lilian. 2016. “City of Los Angeles GeoHub.” Presented at the ESRI User Conference, San Diego, CA. (Link)
  - Parker, Hilary. 2017. “Opinionated analysis development.” Presented at rstudio::conf, Orlando, FL. (Link)
  - Healy, Kieran. 2018. “Introduction.” In The plain person’s guide to plain text. (Link)
  - Entry Ticket 01 (Link)
After Class:
- Complete Lab 01 - A Simple Interactive Map
- Read through the Final Project instructions and draft your initial memo
Optional Additional Readings:
- Goodchild, Michael. 2010. “Twenty years of progress: GIScience in 2010.” Journal of Spatial Information Science 1(1):3-20. (Link)
- Logan, John. 2010. “Making a place for space: Spatial thinking in social science.” Annual Review of Sociology 38:507-524. (Link)
- Parker Hilary. 2017. “Opinionated analysis development.” PeerJ Preprints 5:e3210v1. (Link)
- Thieme, Nick. 2018. “R generation.” Significance 15(4):14-19. (Link)

Before Class:
- Complete Lab-01 from last week
- Complete the Meeting 02 preparatory videos and entry ticket (via Blackboard)
  - Prep Video A - Analysis Development
  - Prep Video B - Cartography Basics
  - Submit final project memo (Link)
  - Entry Ticket 02
After Class:
- Complete Lab-02
- Follow-up with Chris in your Final Project repo about any outstanding memo questions
Optional Additional Readings:
- Wickham, Hadley. “Workflow: Projects.” R for Data Science. (Link)
- Wilson, Greg, Jennifer Bryan, Karen Cranston, Justin Kitzes, Lex Nederbragt, and Tracy Teal. 2017. “Good enough practices in scientific computing.” PLoS Computational Biology 13(6):e1005510. (Link)