CSTE Spatial Analysis Workgroup

Interesting reads

Why Does a Private Company Develop and Offer MOOCs?
Esri, a mapping software company based in Southern California, has developed and offered massive open online courses (MOOCs) for the last four years. Esri’s MOOC program has had 150,000 enrollments across five course titles. This is a company, not a university. 
https://www.class-central.com/report/why-does-a-private-company-develop-and-offer-moocs/
 
 
We Use Less Information to Make Decisions Than We Think
New evidence suggests that access to information may work better in theory than in practice. People think they will rationally assess all available information before forming conclusions, but then, with so much information at their disposal, they actually form conclusions nearly right away. Minds are made up long before we make it through the evidence.
https://hbr.org/2019/03/we-use-less-information-to-make-decisions-than-we-think

Comments & Events

Scott Troppy, Surveillance Epidemiologist at MA DPH
thanks for sharing the MOOC article - I am currently taking a class and hope to take the Cartography one that starts in April. 

Please check out the listings here - https://www.esri.com/training/mooc/

Great way to test drive the software with a free account and the courses are documented pretty well if you want to learn about spatial analysis.
Hepsi Swarna
Thank you for sharing MOOC article and the link for the ESRI class listings, we are are very interested in spatial analysis.


Our health informatics team recently took a GIS class, it was so interesting and informative. We learned all about geocoding, creating map layers etc. There is a lot to learn and we have to keep practicing.
Scott Troppy, Surveillance Epidemiologist at MA DPH
Thanks for your comments Hepsi!
Elizabeth Kruger
Thank you so much. Ricardo responded so quickly.

Elizabeth
Elizabeth Kruger
Thank you so much. Ricardo responded so quickly.

Elizabeth