Neighborhood Knowledge California (NKCA)

Friday, May 7^th 2004
1:30-4:00pm
Public Policy Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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NKCA will conduct an introductory workshop that provides an overview of the basic concepts of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how geographic information can be used in a planning, research and policy environment. There will be a demonstration of the GIS research tools of NCKA’s website (nkca.ucla.edu) that makes demographic, socioeconomic, housing, and lending data available to the public. Finally, participants will be instructed on how to develop personal profiles on the site which allow them to conduct their own analysis, develop community profiles, and import outside data sources.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This workshop is part of an all-day event “Mapping Community Health: Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Health Research” co-sponsored by the Ralph & Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. For a listing of the rest of the day’s events, please visit the Ralph & Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies’ website at:

http://lewis.sppsr.ucla.edu/CommunityHealthGIS/ or email lewisctr@sppsr.ucla.edu

DIRECTIONS
 
The event is free of charge. Parking costs $7. Maps and directions to the Public Policy Building (the School of Public Policy and Social Research) are available at:
http://www.sppsr.ucla.edu/about/locatn/map_sch.html

FOR MORE INFORMATION
 

Ralph & Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Website: http://lewis.sppsr.ucla.edu/CommunityHealthGIS/

Email: lewisctr@sppsr.ucla.edu

Fax: 310-825-1575 (ATTN: GIS)