December 2003

Internship at BNL

San Francisco Demographic Analysis Workshop Announcement

When: December 15th & 16th, 2003
Where: M/UX Training Center-180 Montgomery, 16th Fl San Francisco, CA 94105
Fee: $225 for credit card at the time of sign up, $249 regular price
How To Register: You may register online at www.smartgirltechnologies.com The Local Demographic Analysis Workshop (LDAW) will teach you to extract, query, download, analyze, map and present 2002-1990 demographic data for San Francisco and surrounding communities. These data can provide grant writers, social researchers and community planners with powerful tools for analyzing community changes.

In this unique, hands-on workshop participants will use data from the 2002 American Community Survey (ACS) and 2000/1990 Census of Population and Housing, for small area, regional and national analysis. Participants receive a LDAW workbook that includes the workshop presentation, exercises, reference materials and a valuable Demographic Data Resource CD. This CD includes useful GIS tools such as ArcExplorer and several shapefiles for the entire US.

Participants will also receive Information Activist, a quarterly e-letter highlighting new data rich websites and interesting social research.

(For a detailed agenda, description of materials and to see workshop reviews, visit www.smartgirltechnologies.com )

The Local Demographic Analysis Workshop (LDAW) will:Teach you to extract, query, download, analyze, map and present 2002-1990 Census and American Community Survey (ACS) data that includes Income, Race/Ethnicity, Age, Housing, Language and Transportation; Teach you to construct a Local Community Change Profile(tm). The Profile is comprised of 25 key demographic variables and customized for San Francisco and a Census tract within San Francisco (participants may also substitute their own community); Teach you analytical, demographic and spatial analysis techniques including commonly used mathematical formulas to transform raw data into compelling information; Teach you about Census geography including common problems such as working with non-Census boundaries, analyzing change over time despite boundary changes and how to use new mapping functionality recently built in to American Factfinder; Provide you with an extensive LDAW workbook that includes the a copy of the presentation, exercises, exercise answers and written reference materials; Provide a valuable Demographic Data Resource CD that includes useful GIS tools such as ArcExplorer, a free map browser produced by ESRI; Provide several boundary shapefiles such as tracts, counties, cities,water and school district boundaries for the entire United States; Entitle you to receive Information Activist, a quarterly e-letter highlighting new data rich websites and interesting social research; Learn techniques to present data in clear, compelling ways in terms of tabular, graphical and spatial data.