LEARNING OBJECTIVES
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A BEAUTIFUL INTERACTIVE MAP VISUALIZATION ONLINE
AND WONDERED HOW THE HECK THEY DID THAT? SOMETIMES THE WORLD OF
INTERACTIVE MAPS AND DATA VISUALIZATION CAN BE OVERWHELMING: WHICH
TOOLS SHOULD I USE? WHAT LANGUAGE SHOULD I LEARN? IS MY DATA GOING TO
WORK? THIS WORKSHOP AIMS TO GIVE YOU THE FOUNDATION TO START
DEVELOPING YOUR OWN INTERACTIVE MAPS AND GEOSPATIAL VISUALIZATIONS FOR
THE WEB BY FOCUSING ON A FEW POPULAR AND OPEN SOURCE TOOLS THAT YOU
CAN MASTER AND BUILD ON AS YOU GO. WITH A FEW FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS AND
A BIT OF KNOWLEDGE, FRIENDLY AND ENERGETIC DAN SWICK WILL SHOW HOW YOU
CAN BUILD YOUR OWN BEAUTIFUL MAPS AND VISUALIZATIONS FOR THE WEB.
WE’LL COVER:
- PROCESSING AND WORKING WITH SPATIAL DATA ON THE WEB
- WORKING WITH SEVERAL POPULAR JAVASCRIPT LIBRARIES TO BUILD
VISUALIZATIONS
- PUBLISHING YOUR CREATION FOR OTHERS TO SEE
THIS WORKSHOP ASSUMES SOME WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF HTML, CSS, AND
JAVASCRIPT. IF YOU’RE NEW TO THOSE LANGUAGES BUT ARE STILL
INTERESTED, WE CAN SEND YOU SOME MATERIALS TO GET STARTED AHEAD OF
TIME.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Dan is friendly, patient, and fun - one of our most popular
instructors. He is a Frontend Platform Engineer at Mapbox who "jumps
down technical rabbit holes a bit too quickly". He works on shared
tools to help Mapbox's frontend teams launch great web pages and
applications.
THIS WORKSHOP MEETS FOUR TIMES
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Wednesday, March 25 (6:00 - 9:00 p.m.)
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Wednesday, April 1 (6:00 - 9:00 p.m.)
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Wednesday, April 8 (6:00 - 9:00 p.m.)
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Wednesday, April 15 (6:00 - 9:00 p.m.)
YOUR REGISTRATION INCLUDES:
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Hands-on lab time and opportunity to work closely with the instructor
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Certificate of Attendance and/or Completion, upon request
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Students must bring their own laptops to participate in this workshop,
either a PC or a Mac.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Rick Kos, BayGeo's Education Director at rkos@baygeo.org
For more information about this workshop, the GIS Educaton Center, and
our refund policy, please visit ccsfgis.org
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