GIS Day: GeoPython Using Google Colab Notebooks

Date: Wednesday November 20, 2024
Time: 1:30 – 2:20 p.m. 
Location: Dana Porter Library, Room 323 
Facilitator: Alex Smith 

Google Colab with the GeoPandas Python package is an effective platform for GIS analysis. This introductory workshop, a combination of presentation, demonstration, and question & answer session, will showcase how users can load, project, query and visualize GIS data through graphs and maps.

By the end of this workshop, participants will have:

• Introductory knowledge of how to load, project, query and visualize GIS data
• Some insight into future directions of where this platform could be taken
• An understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of GIS analysis with Google Colab