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GIS / Mapping Working Group

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) / Mapping working group is a network of CUNY students, faculty and staff who are interested in sharing methods and techniques, and finding support from others about ways GIS can be used to further research and teaching.

The GIS/Mapping working group is part of a GC Digital Initiatives program designed to create collaborative communities of Digital Fellows, CUNY-wide graduate students, staff, and faculty to meet regularly and share their areas of interest. The working groups provide a sustained, supportive environment to learn new skills, share familiar skills, and collaborate with both the Digital Fellows and the CUNY digital community.

If you are using Geographic Information Systems or other mapping technologies in your teaching and/or research, or if you are interested in mapping your data, or using GIS technology to analyze/visualize your data, we invite you to join the GIS/Mapping working group.

Peruse our mapping resource bank here: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/docs/gis-mapping-resources/

For the Spring 2024 semester, the GIS/Mapping working group will meet in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414, every other Tuesday from 2-4 p.m. Check out our event calendar for the specific meeting dates. Please stop by!

GIS for research on social media

  • Posted by Olivia Ildefonso (she/her) on October 23, 2018 at 4:12 pm

    Hi all,

    The GC Digital Initiatives is planning our next set of workshops for the spring. We are aiming to focus them on researching social media.  Researchers across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly using data from social media in their work, and the troves of data available hold potential for groundbreaking and innovative outputs. Much of this data, such as tweets on Twitter and posts on instagram are already geotaged, which lends itself to a spatial analysis.

    In addition to mapping tweets and posts, I’m trying to brainstorm some ways that GIS can be used for social media research. Do you have any thoughts?  Do you have ideas for workshops on this topic that would be useful for you?

    Thanks!

    Olivia

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