Empirical Reasoning Center

By Amelia Marcantonio-Fields As I was assisting with summer Pre-College data exploration courses and developing QGIS workshops for a course, I had to re-familiarize myself with the methods behind the standard data breaks in GIS. I got the question of what breaks and when to use them often this summer, and I hope this extra…

By Maddie Liberman In this workshop, we create a map with different kinds of historical data. We will use this to see the change over time in a specific area of New York.  We’ll start out by downloading our data sources. We will be georeferencing a historical map and looking at the locations of saloons…

Led by Maddy Liberman, Undergraduate ERC Fellow Today we will be using Mapbox to make custom Halloween-themed maps! Mapbox is a web browser map platform. Many apps and websites use it for basemaps, such as CNN, Instacart, and the New York Times. I’ll show you some examples from https://www.mapbox.com/showcase. Mapbox has many advantages in that…

By Sultana Mohammed Often in the working world, graphs are used to show changes in data over time, however, sometimes these graphs don’t capture the full picture and can be misleading.  A good graph should tell you a story, it should be able to be read on their own and still be understandable. Graphs, however,…

By Neeti Kapadia We will be running an F-test on two stock indexes from Denmark and Sweden on their closing prices data from March through May 2020. More specifically, we will be looking at the closing prices of their most traded stock indices, the OMXC and OMX respectively.  Both Denmark and Sweden are quite similar…

Tutorial on how to visualize tabular data in ArcMap by joining it to a shapefile (a spatial data file) using 2010 census data by NTA and the percent population change between 2000 and 2010.