Mapping and Using Data

Mapping Tools

QGIS

• QGIS Setup instructions and basic tutorial
• QGIS quick tutorial

Example Datasets

• Chihuahuan Desert Ants occurences
• Chihuahuan Desert_County Boundary
• Project File map
• Ecoregions Layer

QGIS Video Tutorials

• Finding data from SCAN
• Editing features on a map in QGIS
• Intro to data visualization (adjusting properties of symbology, point size based on a field, categorized and graduated symbology)
• Vector analysis (Count occurences by polygons)
• how to load in csv files and other vector layers
• Symbology in QGIS

Data Exploration and Transformation Tools

• Pivot tables in excel
• Intro to OpenRefine (Data Cleaning Software)
  • Link to OpenRefine
  • Sample data