About this course: In this project-based course, you will design and execute a complete GIS-based analysis – from identifying a concept, question or issue you wish to develop, all the way to final data products and maps that you can add to your portfolio. Your completed project will demonstrate your mastery of the content in the GIS Specialization and is broken up into four phases: Milestone 1: Project Proposal - Conceptualize and design your project in the abstract, and write a short proposal that includes the project description, expected data needs, timeline, and how you expect to complete it. Milestone 2: Workflow Design - Develop the analysis workflow for your project, which will typically involve creating at least one core algorithm for processing your data. The model need not be complex or complicated, but it should allow you to analyze spatial data for a new output or to create a new analytical map of some type. Milestone 3: Data Analysis – Obtain and preprocess data, run it through your models or other workflows in order to get your rough data products, and begin creating your final map products and/or analysis. Milestone 4: Web and Print Map Creation – Complete your project by submitting usable and attractive maps and your data and algorithm for peer review and feedback.
Who is this class for: This course is targeted at those who have taken the first four courses in the GIS specialization, or who have equivalent foundational GIS experience. We encourage you to audit or enroll in those courses before taking this course.
Taught by: Nick Santos, Geospatial Applications Researcher
Center for Watershed Sciences
| Basic Info | Course 5 of 5 in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization |
| Commitment | 4-8 weeks of study in 4 milestones - each milestone should take 10-20 hours of effort. |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Course Overview
- Reading: Course Project Overview
- Reading: Getting Help in this Course
- Video: Project Proposal Overview
- Reading: Milestone 1 Assignment Preview
- Discussion Prompt: Data Sources and Repositories
- Reading: Finding Project Ideas
- Discussion Prompt: Share Your Project Ideas!
- Reading: Data Sources For Your Project
- Reading: Example Project Proposal
- Reading: Extra Practice: Make Your Project a Website
- Video: Vector-Based Suitability Analysis (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Classifying Imagery and Derived Products (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Planning Your Workflow Overview
- Reading: Milestone 2 Assignment Preview
- Reading: Extra Practice: Data Analysis
- Video: What is ModelBuilder? (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Creating Toolboxes and Tools with ModelBuilder (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Setting Up a Larger Model (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Using Interface Tools as Geoprocessing Tools in ModelBuilder (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Feature Layers and Selections in Models (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Branching, Preconditions, and Viewing Progress Interactively (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Polishing Models for Reuse (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Advanced Models and Exporting Models to Python (Review from Imagery, Automation, and Applications)
- Video: Data Analysis Overview
- Reading: Milestone 3 Assignment Preview
- Reading: Example Methods and Results Document
- Video: Assessing Data Quality and Uncertainty (Review from Data Formats, Design, & Quality)
- Video: Data Quality (Review from Data Formats, Design, & Quality)
- Video: Metadata (Review from Fundamentals of GIS)
- Video: Creating Your Maps Overview
- Reading: Milestone 4 Assignment Preview
- Video: Uploading Rasters to ArcGIS Online
- Reading: Extra Practice: Cartography and Online Maps
- Video: Loading Layers in ArcGIS Online (Review from GIS Data Formats, Design, and Quality)
- Video: Applying Symbology in ArcGIS Online (Review from GIS Data Formats, Design, and Quality)
- Video: Map Annotations and Scaling in ArcGIS Online (Review from GIS Data Formats, Design, and Quality)
- Video: Saving and Sharing Maps with ArcGIS Online (Review from GIS Data Formats, Design, and Quality)
- Reading: Extra Practice: Make Your Project a Website
- Video: Course Summary
Each course is like an interactive textbook, featuring pre-recorded videos, quizzes and projects.
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I found this Project really useful. It was the opportunity to put in practice a lot of things that I learnt from the previous courses. Time allocated for it is appropriate. Through whole Specialization I appreciate cooperation and help from the peers and instructors. I appreciate also possibility to get Student License for ArcGIS Software.
Room for improvement: There would be very beneficial for us as course students to have a feedback from instructors. I understand that it would be significant effort for them and I believe it wouldn't be paid but, I think at least for this Capstone Project should be considered some professional assessment of the job we done. I appreciate feedback from my colleagues, too, but I am afraid most of us are not as competent as we should be to evaluate appropriately other's people Capstone Project work.
Final grade in my opinion at the scale from 1 to 10 is 9.
This is an integrated project to go through the knowledge aquired during the entire specialization. I partaked in many MOOCs but this one in GIS has been one of the best I had never taken.
Great course- perfect synthesis of skills gained throughout the series.
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JA
Outstanding!
Having completed all specialization will make you a perfectly qualified GIS professional.