Learning Materials

This page provides a video recording of a workshop on OpenRefine.

This page provides access to a Data Visualization self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on data viz theory and provides opportunities to practice critiquing visualizations. 

This page provides access to a Data Visualization self-paced online Quercus course that introduces participants to Tableau Desktop. Participants will learn to create visualizations using some example datasets.

This page provides access to an Infographics self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on best practices for creating infographics.

This page provides access to a self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on how to use R for exploring and manipulating data.

This page provides access to a self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on using R for intermediate level data manipulation and visualization, and programming flow control.

This page provides access to a self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on data cleaning using OpenRefine.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on ArcGIS Pro.

This page provides a video recording of a workshop in ArcGIS Pro focusing on spatial analysis.

This page provides a video recording of a workshop on ArcGIS Pro that focuses on loading and manipulating data.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on Constellate.

Please note that Constellate is ending on July 1st, 2025. Some learning materials will remain available afterwards.

This page provides a video recording of a introductory workshop on NVivo 12 for Windows.

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

It covers how to enable AI Assistant in NVivo 15 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.