Visualising geographical data with QGis

For the first Journocoders of 2018 we’ll be learning how to visualise geographical data using QGis.

We’ll be building and styling graphics visualising London greenspace data in four different ways — a dot density map, proportional symbol map, choropleth map, and a hexagonal bin map. To do this we’ll use QGis, a popular tool for viewing, editing, and analysing geographical data.

Bring a laptop along as this is a practical, hands-on workshop. No programming experience is required. However, if you feel comfortable doing so, please download and install QGis (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html). If you have trouble doing that, don't worry, we will help you on the day.

Please make sure you're signed up to Dropbox to view our shared doc (https://bit.ly/journocoders-jan-2018) — and remember to add links to anything data or journalism-related you've seen or worked on to the show and tell section!

Schedule:

7:00 🚪 Doors open
7:30 🗣 Show and tell
7:40 💻 Tutorial
9:00 🍺 Drinks at the Ship