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November 08, 2011

From Branner GIS - GIS Day 2011: Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Please join us in celebrating GIS Day at Stanford University on November 16th at 1pm!

GIS Day is held in over 45 countries around the world during Geography Awareness Week in order to showcase the work done by those using GIS and geospatial technologies.

Stanford University, as part of its ongoing commitment to support the development and integration of geospatial technologies, is celebrating GIS Day with an Open House. The event will include a series of lightning talks by renowned professionals in the field of GIS, a Map Gallery featuring some of the best work by students across many disciplines and a "Where in the World?" contest with prizes.

In addition to faculty and student speakers, featured guest speakers include GIS professionals from the Silicon Valley area, including NASA and the US Geological Survey.

GIS Day provides a great opportunity to view work being done on campus by our diverse community of users.

Where: Mitchell Earth Science Building, Hartley Conference Center. (Address: 397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305)

Schedule:
1:00-1:30pm - Map Gallery Opening
1:30-4:00pm - Lightning Talks
4:00-4:30pm - Awards

Who: Open to all public.

More Information, including Lightning Talk topics & speakers, Map Gallery exhibits, and GIS Day Contest and prizes.

Posted by ronbo at 07:09 PM

From Branner GIS - Geography Awareness Week: November 14-18, 2011

GIS Workshops

Mapping with R
Instructor: Claudia Engel, Academic Technology Specialist & Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
When: Monday, Nov 14, 12-1pm
Where: Meyer Library, Room 182

Introduction to QGIS
Instructors:
Noemi Alvarez, GIS Analyst, Digital Humanities
Elijah Meeks, Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities
Renzo Sanchez-Silva, GIS Developer, Digital Library Services
Claudia Engel, Academic Technology Specialist & Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
When: Tuesday, Nov 15, 12-1pm
Where: Meyer Library, Room 182

Introduction to PostGIS & Open Layers
Instructor: Renzo Sanchez-Silva, GIS Developer, Digital Library Services
When: Thursday, Nov 17, 12-1pm
Where: Meyer Library, Room 182

Introduction to ArcGIS
Instructor: Patricia Carbajales, Geospatial Manager, Branner Earth Sciences Libray
When: Thursday, Nov 17, 5:30pm-8:30pm
Where: Mitchell Earth Sciences Building, Room A65 (sub-basement)

Mapping with Google Earth & Fusion Tables
Instructor: Patricia Carbajales, Geospatial Manager, Branner Earth Sciences Libray
When: Friday, Nov 18, 12-1pm
Where: Meyer Library, Room 182

More information, including workshop descriptions and prerequisites.

Posted by ronbo at 06:59 PM

November 07, 2011

From ICPSR - Recent ICPSR updates and additions: New Releases through 2011-11-06

Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:

New Additions

26721 Iowa Youth and Families Project, 1989-1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26721.v2

30103 How Couples Meet and Stay Together (HCMST), Wave I 2009, Wave II 2010, United States
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30103.v1

31421 New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES), 2004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31421.v1

31924 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31924.v1

32321 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program II in the United States, 2010
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32321.v1

Updates

2883 Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1996
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02883.v4

3957 Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 2001
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03957.v3

4539 Supplemental Survey of Civil Appeals, 2001
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04539.v2

6072 CBS News/New York Times State of the Union Poll, January 1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06072.v2

6090 CBS News/New York Times Texas State Survey, October 1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06090.v2

6587 Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06587.v5

23862 Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 2005
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23862.v2

Posted by ronbo at 02:40 PM