Qualitative GIS Guest Lecture
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A lecture I gave on how to analyze and conceptualize qualitative data and qualitative methods in GIS. Broader focus than traditional desktop-based GIS.
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Qualitative GIS Guest Lecture
- 1. more than numbers: practicing qualitative GIS ryan burns rlburns@uw.edu http://burnsr77.github.io
- 2. GIS is not about numbers
- 3. GIS is not about numbers GIS is about collecting, ordering, and representing knowledge about the world
- 4. GIS is not about numbers GIS is about collecting, ordering, and representing knowledge about the world qualitative GIS fills an important gap: the (traditionally) overlooked notion that people have complex experiences of places
- 5. you already do qualitative work with GIS!
- 6. You already do qualitative work with GIS! fear
- 7. You already do qualitative work with GIS! curiosity fear
- 8. You already do qualitative work with GIS! curiosity fear evocation
- 9. you already do qualitative work with GIS! deliberation curiosity fear evocation
- 10. why look at “qualitative” data?
- 11. why look at “qualitative” data? maps are seen to be authoritative
- 13. maps are seen to be authoritative politically powerful! why look at “qualitative” data?
- 14. “they’re like, ‘Are you sure this is it?’ And he’s like, ‘Yes,it’s there. It’s on the map.’ (Elwood, S. 2009. Multiple Representations, Significations, and Epistemologies in Community-Based GIS. In Qualitative GIS. )
- 15. why look at “qualitative” data? maps are seen to be authoritative politically powerful! gain insights into social processes
- 20. why look at “qualitative” data? maps are seen to be authoritative politically powerful! gain insights into social processes because geographic information is embedded with values and norms
- 21. national politics Source: Graham, M., M. Zook. 2013. Augmented realities and uneven geographies: exploring the geolinguistic contours of the web. Environment and Planning A 45: 77-99.
- 22. national politics Source: Graham, M., M. Zook. 2013. Augmented realities and uneven geographies: exploring the geolinguistic contours of the web. Environment and Planning A 45: 77-99.
- 23. national politics Source: Graham, M., M. Zook. 2013. Augmented realities and uneven geographies: exploring the geolinguistic contours of the web. Environment and Planning A 45: 77-99.
- 24. qualitative methods interpretive, discourses, contextual, anti-abstraction
- 33. what did I just see? data is a way of abstracting, collecting, ordering, and representing the world
- 34. what did I just see? data is a way of abstracting, collecting, ordering, and representing the world qualitative data preserve the context, complexity, and richness of human experience
- 35. what did I just see? data is a way of abstracting, collecting, ordering, and representing the world qualitative data preserve the context, complexity, and richness of human experience (this does not mean it’s inaccurate)
- 36. what did I just see? data is a way of abstracting, collecting, ordering, and representing the world qualitative data preserve the context, complexity, and richness of human experience (this does not mean it’s inaccurate) qualitative methods can be a way of re-contextualizing numbers
- 37. thank you for your time and attention now go eat responsibly ryan burns rlburns@uw.edu http://burnsr77.github.i o
- 38. JANUARY 10, 2010 OpenStreetMap
- 39. January 14, 2010
- 40. Today
- 42. USHAHIDI [PT 2] 300 reports
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- mapping technologies can also serve as a rallying point around the nation as a site of politics
- mapping technologies can also serve as a rallying point around the nation as a site of politics
- mapping technologies can also serve as a rallying point around the nation as a site of politics
- OSM is a digital humanitarian technology Leogane, 25 km west of PAP