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GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality

Geographic Information Systems (GIS),

In this course, the second in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization, you will go in-depth with common data types (such as raster and vector data), structures, quality and storage during four week-long modules: Week 1: Learn about data models and formats, including a full understanding of vector data and raster concepts. You will also learn about the implications of a data’s scale and how to load layers from web services. Week 2: Create a vector data model by using vector attribute tables, writing query strings, defining queries, and adding and calculating fields. You'll also learn how to create new data through the process of digitizing and you'll use the built-in Editor tools in ArcGIS. Week 3: Learn about common data storage mechanisms within GIS, including geodatabases and shapefiles. Learn how to choose between them for your projects and how to optimize them for speed and size. You'll also work with rasters for the first time, using digital elevation models and creating slope and distance analysis products. Week 4: Explore datasets and assess them for quality and uncertainty. You will also learn how to bring your maps and data to the Internet and create web maps quickly with ArcGIS Online. Take GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality as a standalone course or as part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization. You should have equivalent experience to completing the first course in this specialization, Fundamentals of GIS, before taking this course. By completing the second class in the Specialization you will gain the skills needed to succeed in the full program.

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Rating 4.8 based on 336 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From University of California, Davis via Coursera
Instructor Nick Santos
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Business Engineering Social Sciences Science
Tags Business Physical Science And Engineering Business Essentials Environmental Science And Sustainability

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Thank you Nick Santos and the team for the perfect presentation and the additional resources.

Nick Santos is a great instructor, he breaks things down in a way that is very intuitive and easy to learn.

The course provides required knowledge to understand GIS File types, data formats, Design, Spatial Analysis and Creating Web Maps etc., My sincere thanks to the Instructor Mr.Nick Santos.

Thank you UC Davis, thank you Nick Santos and thank you Coursera for this opportunity.

This combined with excellent teaching approach of the instructor, Nick Santos and the good balance of theory and hands-on makes this course absolute recommendation!

Great Job by Nick Santos Sir.

Tal como el primer curso de la especialización en SIG es excelente, Nick Santos es un gran tutor, la estructura del contenido es apropiada y sigue una secuencia que hace que todo sea mas fácil de entender.

Ha sido el segundo curso del programa y en mi experiencia hay que dedicar un poco más de tiempo del que uno cree para afianzar mejor las lecciones enseñadas, el curso cumplió con mis expectativas, el desempeño del profesor Nick Santos ha sido muy bueno y el contenido ha sido bastante práctico.

The professor, Nick Santos, is extremely skilled, passionate and organised.

As great as the first course in the specialisation: Even that I am not an IT-expert, I was able to complete the course because of the excellent introduction into GIS and Arc Map, thanks to Nick Santos for his excellent explanations.

Thanks to course instructor Nick Santos specially for amazing lecture delivery and prominent assistance in discussion forum when it's necessary.

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final assignment

Excellent course, great final assignment!

The final assignment is so challenging but inspiring, if you finish it successfully you will really ask for more.

With the final assignment done I feel like I can actually work through some workflows by myself now and I'm looking forward to the next course in the specialization to learn even more.

The final assignment is impossible to finish since I have 10.4 version in my computer.

In the final assignment I was marked down on one aspect.

It's a great course and the final assignment is very challenging and interesting.

There's a lot of information packed in to 4 weeks, but the final assignment is incredibly rewarding.

The final assignment made me frustrated in the beginning.

The grading on the final assignment is taking away all my pleasure in taking the course.

The final assignment was a well balanced application of skills learned in the course, including geoprocessing workflows, digitizing, basic analysis and finally uploading a finished product into ArcGIS online, which was a suite that wasn't around when I last studied in University, so I felt it was handy to get an intro.My only complaint is there was only one assignment that seemed to be a bit out of place, with content that was quite advanced without relevance to what had been discussed in the course.

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data formats

I had taken the Fundamentals in GIS course and after completing that decided to continue with GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality.

I enjoyed GIS data Formats, De Excellent class, I'm already using the information I gained in this class for my Masters.

Brilliant Good course to know about data formats and other tools used in GIS Lots of contents, I really enjoyed this course.

This course moves pasts the basics and gets into details for GIS data formats.

I will take the next one :) I enjoy this course , Excellent learning resource for Gis Data Formats, Design and Quality that teaches with examples , Excellence!

GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality In general it's a great course.

Thanks for the amazing opportunity Coursera, you are simply the Best, very soon I will come back with the Story How GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality have to help me An awesome way to dive a bit deeper into the GIS Data formats by learning the basics of designing AND quality.

Very comprehensive look at some of the less interesting but incredibly important world of data formats and storage/collaboration nuances.

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very good course

very very good course and perfect lecture thanks Coursera really GIS IS INNOVATION OF THE WORLD Excellent!

This is a very good course and would recommend it to anyone interested in learning GIS.

Very Good course!

Very good course materials and clearly presented videos Week 3 was the most helpful and fun to do and so was the final project.

Thank you so much Coursera for giving us this kind of quality stuff it is very good course i hope you got it Very Nice Course.

very helpful Excelente curso A very good course to take if you are unfamiliar with GIS and ArcMap.

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gis data

Almost all major tasks which are required to work with and manage GIS Data are covered in this course.

From basic GIS data to latest versions ArcGIS Software covered till ArcGIS Online.

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very useful

Its a very useful and informative course.

In this course we've learned lots of new analysis tools which are very useful in different kinds of work.

This course covers very useful tools that we need to learn.

The tutorial assignments and project are very useful in practicing the concepts learned in the video lectures.

Very useful.

Very useful and interesting material + great teacher.

Highly recommend it :) NICE EXPLANATION BY EXPERIENCED FACULTY Ótimo curso e instrutores Very useful, didactic and effective for a rapid learning process Nick is a great and friendly instructor.

Very useful course, if you going to listen all lessons very attentively, final task won't take much time to complete it!

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final project

The final project is especially a great opportunity to practice all the lessons from the videos!

It does go by very fast and a lot of key elements of tools are glossed over... so you need to watch many of the lessons more than once in order to complete the final project unless you have done this work before.

The lectures are very helpful to the students or gis learners who wants to do some on-line, especially the final project was awesome... i really enjoyed and learned much more things... Nice MOOC This course was challenging but it really forced you to learn ArcGIS.

The final project was challenging and rewarding.

The final project, at times, was very difficult and I did not receive much mentor help.

I recommend that you pay close attention in the lectures, and do all the exercises, even the "extra practice" ones because the final project will use a lot of what was presented.Speaking of these "extra practice" exercises, they are located in a companion book that you can buy, but the book is not required for the course.

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easy to understand

useful course Excellent course, easy to understand.

Some concepts are not easy to understand at the first glance, but it is always interesting to learn and apply in the projects.

The instructor is awesome, he has a special capability of making the lesson enjoyable and easy to understand.

Very educational and easy to understand.

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well structured

Good course, well structured to deliver the invaluable skills, ranging from data management to final output after processing.

The program reveled to be very useful and well structured, and the instructor turns it into a pleasure, making it easy and enjoyable.

Nice course Well paced, well structured, good fun.

Well Structured Course.

Great course, I learned a lot and it was well structured.

Informative lectures, well structured course with lots of practice.

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so much

There was so much information and I learned many new skills.

This course gives me so much information about ArcGIS and i got lot of experience in ArcGIS tool.thank you Great course to learn about geodatabases and analysis tools!

Thank you so much Nick and your team!

I learned so much about building data in ArcGIS!

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working with

Really gave me the skills to start working with my own data!

Really nice intro to working with rasters and performing calculations based on them, either to produce new rasters or in comparison with vector data.

It is high-paced but if you really enjoy navigating and working with datasets you'll never regret the material covered.

Also working with rasters and developing workflow habits through practice has the desired effect of creating a confidence in your work.

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geoprocessing tools

Another forward step in GIS learning, starting to use some geoprocessing tools, and understanding how the geodatabases work, and when to use each tipe.

I especially liked the final project as a way to use the geoprocessing tools and online presentation features of ArcGIS.

It was great to get to work with different data types and learn more of the geoprocessing tools.

This course has covered a lot of useful things consisting of geoprocessing tools and web maps.The final assignment was superb.

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Careers

An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

Data 2 $50k

Vector/Cutco Sales Representative $62k

Concept Artist/Vector Artist /Flash Animator $86k

Assistant Vector Controller/Supv. $87k

Data Scientist - Data Curation $92k

Data Analyst, Data Warehousing $93k

Data Administrator / Data Modeler $108k

Vector Controller/Supv. $119k

Senior Data Architect/Data Modeler $135k

Data Scientist (Data Analytics group) $138k

Data Modeler/Data Warehouse Architect $142k

Data Integration / Data Warehouse Architect $155k

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Rating 4.8 based on 336 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From University of California, Davis via Coursera
Instructor Nick Santos
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Business Engineering Social Sciences Science
Tags Business Physical Science And Engineering Business Essentials Environmental Science And Sustainability

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