Exploring ICPSR Data using GIS

This brief guide to mapping ICPSR data in R Studio was prepared as part of Aditya Ranganath’s ICPSR Visiting Representative Fellowship in the summer and fall of 2021. It can be used as a lesson plan for instructors, as well as a tool for self-study.

About the Project

Many ICPSR datasets could be explored in the context of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis. This resource includes a tutorial and practice exercises that will introduce data users (including students) to GIS analysis. It can be used as a lesson plan for instructors, as well as a tool for self-study.

Introduction
Preliminaries & Set-up
Tutorial
Exercises
Conclusion

About the Author

Dr. Aditya Ranganath is a Data Librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Before coming to Boulder, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale-NUS College in Singapore (where he taught courses in international relations and political economy), and New York University Libraries (where he specialized in geospatial data curation as a CLIR Fellow). He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2018.

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