Geographic Information Systems & QGIS

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is xyz that allows you to view, manipulate, analyze, and visualize spatial data. [elaborate]

There are different GIS platforms out there. Perhaps you’ve heard of esri arcgis pro. QGIS is a popular desktop gis application because it is free and open source, meaning…. For this reason, today’s workshop will use QGIS.

upsides, downsides.

Todays workshop… uses of R to do …. (give explanation of what can be done in R and GIS independently, and the overlap in tasks possible. maybe advantages or disadvantages to doing these tasks in one or the other software)