Lesson 1

SMT201 Geographic Information Systems for Urban Planning

About

Weekly Session

Take Home Exercises

GIS Project

Course Resources

Introduction to GIS for Urban Planning

Lesson Outline

• Course Overview
• An Overview of Urban Planning
  • Theory and philosophy of planning
  • Practice of urban planning
  • Urban planning and management in Singapore
• Introduction to GIS
  • GIS as a system

• GIS in the context of Smart Nation

Readings

Core Readings

• Urban Planning
• Why Visual Analytics
• Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age
• The 5 Most Influential Data Visualizations of All Time
• Whitepaper: Visual Analysis for Everyone

Addition Readings

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All About QGIS

Things about Tableau Prof. Kam want you to know!

• Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis,and Visualization of MultidimensionalRelational Databases
• Tableau Technology
• Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis

Tutorial

• Getting Started

• Tableau Interface

• Getting Started with Visual Analytics

• Reference lines

• Getting Started with Data also self-learn the remaining videos under Connecting to Data

• Getting Started with Tableau Prep Builder. This is a brand-new product from Tableau designed to help everyone quickly and confidently combine, shape, and clean their data for analysis. You can learn more about Tableau Data Prep here. You are encouraged to view all the 12 videos under Tableau Prep.