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Data Resources

Numeric Data Tools | Spatial Data Tools | Listservs | Educational Resources | Journals/ Publications

Computer Labs

Library GIS and Data Lab- GIS and statistical software
Budig Instruction Lab- GIS and statistical software
All Campus Labs

Numeric Data Tools

• American Fact Finder Guide- Tips on extracting U.S. Census Bureau data
• Numeric Data Analysis Tool- Conduct online analysis of survey data, and create customized subsets- University of CA, Berkeley

Spatial Data Tools

• ArcGIS Software Manuals- ESRI Digital Books- KU Libraries (through campus site license)
• ArcInfo Interchange (.e00) File Imports to ArcGIS 9- ESRI
• Census Data (TIGER) Translators and Programs- Bruce Ralston, University of Tennessee
• Excel Data Formatting for GIS- University Library, University of Michigan
• Geocoding- How to convert list of addresses to mapped points- IPSR
• Geographic Coordinate Conversion Tool- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Geomedia Viewer- Intergraph
• Georeferencing Images in a GIS- University of Alberta
• GIS Site License at KU- Get ESRI Software at a lower rate, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program
• KML to GIS convertor- Christian Spanring
• Metadata standards, definitions, tools (data source, scale, projection, etc.)- USGS Federal Geographic Data Committee
• Mr. SID Decode- Tool to decompress SID, MG2 and MG3 files- LizardTech
• Scripts- Take advantage of shared user knowledge for added GIS functionality- ESRI
• Spreadsheet Mapper- Map (geocode) by location such as address or latitude/longitude- Google
• XY Data Imports into a GIS- University of Alberta

Listservs: Discussion Forums for...

• KU GIS users (KUGIS-L)- To subscribe send email to: 'listproc@ku.edu' with 'subscribe kugis-l yourfirstname yourlastname' in message body
• KU researchers in statistics (KUSTATS-L)
• Biological conservation and GIS (CONSGIS)
• ESRI software users (ESRI-L)
• ArcView users (ARCVIEW-L)

Listing of Statistics Listservs - Subscription Service (Stat/Transfer)

Educational Resources

• GIS Dictionary- Kansas Association of Mappers
• GIS Glossery- ESRI
• ArcView 3.x versus 8.x Terminology- ESRI
• Find GIS-related journal articles, books, etc.- ESRI Virtual Campus GIS Bibliography
• Library Resources by Subject- Find KU databases for article and web resources by fields of study
• Open Source Geospatial Foundation
• University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
• Web Center for Social Research Methods

Journals/ Publications

• Search for print and electronic journals in KU Libraries Online Catalog and Electronic Journals listings
• Search for articles using journal databases listed in the Databases A-Z list.

Sample journals in Library collection and/or online:
Data/ Statistics: InterStat, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Journal of Official Statistics, Journal of Statistical Software, Journal of Statistics Education, Survey Research Methods

GIS: ArcUser, Geographic Information Systems, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Transactions in GIS

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