MDL Tutorials

This tutorial is for enabling AI Assistant in NVivo 15 on Windows computers. 

It covers how to request AI Assistant Privileges, and how to enable AI Assistant for existing users.

This tutorial is for enabling AI Assistant in NVivo 15 on Mac computers. 

It covers how to request AI Assistant Privileges, and how to enable AI Assistant for existing users.

This tutorial is a beginner friendly introduction to work with GIS data using R. The topics covered are creating and importing GIS data including point, line, and polygon features; making maps; and running common spatial analyses. The main spatial package used is the sf package.

This tutorial is for installing and licensing NVivo 14 or 15 on Windows computers. 

Find information on how to request a license, download and install the software, as well as how to activate the license key for new and existing users.

Site research involves the comprehensive analysis of a location's physical, cultural, and environmental characteristics. This process encompasses assessing topography, climate, zoning regulations, and existing infrastructure, as well as understanding the historical and social context of the site. Other terms often used interchangeably with site research include site analysis, site assessment, and contextual analysis.

Shiny is a powerful open-source tool that is used to build easy interactive web applications. This guide will help users get started in creating R Shiny applications. 

This tutorial will cover how to 'georeference' a raster image through media layers in ArcGIS Online. 

This is a beginner’s guide to creating a point layer in ArcGIS Pro using the latitude and longitude of the locations you wish to display. How to locate coordinates online will be discussed. The first part of this guide will walk you through creating an Excel file of coordinates found in decimal degrees that are set up and ready to be imported into ArcGIS. This guide will then walk you through bringing your data into ArcGIS and creating your point layer on top of a base layer of countries. 

This tutorial will cover how to download census data and census boundary files and match them together in ArcGIS Pro for further analysis. Census data will be downloaded using CHASS. 

This tutorial will demonstrate how to convert geospatial datasets saved as shapefiles into AutoCAD format.

You may have noticed that many GIS datasets contain information about a geographic extent that is larger than your area of interest. Your research may involve analysis of data related to a single municipality in Ontario, yet you have only been able to locate a dataset showing all municipalities located within the province. Alternatively, you may be interested in only displaying a selection of features on your completed map, such as the Canadian cities you have selected as case studies for your research. This tutorial will demonstrate how to extract just the features you need from larger datasets, saving them to new files that you can then use to map and analyze your data.

Digital elevation models (DEMs) are geospatial datasets that contain elevation values sampled according to a regularly spaced rectangular grid. They can be used in terrain analysis, SD visualizations and hydrological modelling, among other applications. DEMs can be stored in several different formats; however, conversion into a raster dataset is often required for many processes. This tutorial explains how to derive contours from DEMs using ArcGIS Pro.

This tutorial covers two methods for clipping raster datasets from ArcGIS Pro.

In order for many GIS functions to work properly, your datasets need to be stored in a common projected coordinate system. This guide will assist you with the projection process in ArcGIS Pro. (Unsure of what the appropriate projection is for your area of interest? Refer to this help document or ask a staff member for assistance in helping you determine it.)

In the case you need to acquire detailed city data to produce a large-scale map and we don’t have what you’re looking for in our data inventory, there is a chance that the user-contributed maps of OpenStreetMap.org may do the trick. QGIS can query and load this data into your map for a specified area of interest. The data can then be exported into common geospatial file formats.

NVivo can handle many types of files, such as text, audio, videos, images, etc. You would import these from the Data menu, by choosing the appropriate option. However, this tutorial will show you a common source of data that you might want to code in NVivo that is a bit more complicated to import.

NVivo can handle many types of files, such as text, audio, videos, images, etc. You would import these from the Import Ribbon, by choosing the Files option. However, this tutorial will show you two common sources of data that you might want to code in NVivo that are a bit more complicated to import.

This tutorial describes how to request a license for NVivo 14, download it, and license it.

This is a beginner level tutorial for NVivo 14 or 15 for Mac (the versions are almost identical). The goal of this tutorial is to learn about the basic features in NVivo that will allow you to organize and analyze qualitative data. Part 1 will go over the basics of navigating the NVivo interface, importing data, and coding with codes. Part 2 will explore the different types of queries you can run in NVivo. If you already have a grasp of the basics and are just interested in learning about queries, you can jump right to Part 2.

This is a beginner level tutorial for NVivo 14 or 15 for Windows (the versions are almost identical). The goal of this tutorial is to learn about the basic features in NVivo that will allow you to organize and analyze qualitative data. Part 1 will go over the basics of navigating the NVivo interface, importing data, and coding with codes. Part 2 will explore the different types of queries you can run in NVivo. If you already have a grasp of the basics and are just interested in learning about queries, you can jump right to Part 2.

This tutorial will explain how to georeference a raster image in ArcGIS so it can be used as an overlay or for digitizing purposes.

In this tutorial, we will use the Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF) to match postal codes to dissemination areas in order to incorporate additional neighbourhood-level demographic data into your dataset.