Michael F. Goodchild, at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Dept. of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, offers some thoughts about spatial literacy and GIS education from the primary to tertiary levels.
Monitoring Minnesota’s Changing Landscapes Research of the University of Minnesota’s Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory. From the home page: This website provides a series of maps and statistics about land cover, impervious surface area and landscape change, derived from satellite imagery, in Minnesota from 1986 to the present. Accurate and consistent information about land…
StateMaster – US Statistics, State Comparisons For those of you who, like me, are already big fans of NationMaster, now there is an analogous tool for comparative U.S. state statistics. Their summary says it all: “Welcome to StateMaster, a unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on…
Constitution Finder This excellent resource from the University of Richmond offers access to the current (and sometimes historical) constitutions of over 200 countries in the original language and English translation. This database offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet.
Micah Altman and Gary King have written a paper on the lack of standards for reliably citing, accessing, and finding quantitative data. The paper, entitled “A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data,” can be read here, but first read this post that sets up the problem nicely.
Exploring Data Through Research Literature EDRL is a learning module that uses ICPSR’s Bibliography of Data-Related Literature to teach students about the relationships between datasets, their authors, and the community of scholarship in which they emerge.
Investigating Community and Social Capital “An instructional site that teaches data analysis of social capital, as discussed in Robert D. Putnam’s Bowling Alone.” (quoted from home page) Five exercises that use major sources of Putnam’s data (the General Social Survey and other life style surveys) help students develop data analysis skills. This rich site includes…