Data Literacy: Public Health GIS Workshop In-Person
What: This workshop is about using geospatial software and data to understand the relationship between environmental variables and health determinants.
Why: Basic familiarity with GIS software and data is useful in forming research questions, acquiring descriptive statistics, and making data maps.
How: This is a free 1-hour in-person workshop. The instructor will be available afterwards to answer any questions about research methods. This live, interactive session will not be recorded.
Where: Classrooms 102 & 103 on the First Floor of Countway Library.
Who: This seminar is open to faculty, research staff, postdoctoral researchers, and students from all disciplines. There are no prerequisites or assumptions of knowledge. In-person workshops are open to Harvard University ID holders only.
Instructor: Belle Lipton, MLIS, MS, GIS Librarian, Harvard Library, Harvard Map Collection
Join your peers to meet new people and learn new skills in a welcoming and encouraging environment!
- Date:
- Thursday, March 26, 2026
- Time:
- 12:30pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Countway Floor 1: Room 102
- Campus Location:
- Harvard Longwood Campus
- Categories:
- Classes Data Management > RDM Seminar Series Records Management
Need help with data management? Feel free to book a 30 minute meeting slot with me.
Happy to help with data organization, cleaning, and sharing for fostering reproducible workflows and open science!