The Value of Place: How to Enhance Your Teaching and Research with Free Mapping and Spatial Analysis Tools

This webinar introduces powerful desktop and online mapping and spatial analysis tools, data, and other related resources you can use to support your teaching and service activities.  These resources are applicable to a wide range of disciplines including health, public safety, public policy, economics, informatics, and more.

One of the resources the webinar explores is SAVI, an online collection of free interactive mapping and analysis tools, downloadable databases, reports, and data literacy workshops. It offers access to thousands of data variables that define the socio-economic characteristics of central and southwest Indiana in finite detail covering multiple decades.   Data themes include demographic trends, social determinants of health, social services, crime, education, and more. Examples of how SAVI resources have already been applied to support research and teaching will be shared.

Workshop facilitators will also demonstrate other examples of the rich data, training, and other Indiana demographic and environmental geospatial data resources available to faculty and students.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Faculty and students in central and southwest Indiana universities and colleges.