1. Using Geographic Information Systems to Transform Teaching and Learning Wendy Guan, Center for Geographic Analysis Amy Cohen, Harvard School of Public Health Paul Cote, Harvard Design School Carla Tishler, Harvard Business School June 23, 2011

2. Founded in 2006 A member organization of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) Serves the entire University – anyone with a HUID Supports research and teaching with geospatial technology (often called geographic information systems or GIS) CGA: Spatially Enabling Research and Teaching

3. 3 CGA Basic Services Maintaining help desks in both campuses; Consulting with students, faculty, and staff on research and teaching projects and grant proposals; Providing non-credit group instructions in geospatial software applications on a regular basis; Assessing, organizing, financing for, and maintaining university site licenses for software; Providing hardware and support for geospatial tools; Undertaking initiatives that improve the university infrastructure in relation to geographic analysis.

4. CGA Training Credit courses at FAS, SEAS, HSPH and DCE Non-credit training every Friday: 2-hour instruction and hands-on labs, 10 topics Summer and Winter 10-day GIS Institutes J-term 4-day GIS Camp for undergraduates Customized GIS modules for non-GIS courses Annual spring conference on a major topic in GIS

6. Fall, 2010 Course: African Landscape Professor: Suzanne Blier Ben Lewis provided a guest lecture to teach students with no GIS background how to bring geospatial materials into their course blogs. Students were taught how to bring materials from AfricaMap into Google Earth and Google MyMaps for mark up, addition and manipulation. From there students were shown how to bring live or static maps into their blogs to create arguments supported by information from AfricaMap and other sources.

7. Visualizing global oil with Google Earth Jeff Blossom gave a presentation "Using Google Earth as a Classroom Tool“ at the Oil and the Contemporary Globe (August, 2009) workshop. Workshop attendees were K – 12 educators, learning how to incorporate oil related subjects into their teaching. Global oil datasets were prepared, and Google Earth was used to visualize global oil production, consumption, pipeline locations, GDP, and population. The data is available for download: http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/oil/Oil and the Contemporary Globe

8. Digital Atlas of Roman & Medieval Civilization Guoping Huang and Giovanni Zambotti conducted DARMC workshops teaching students majoring in history how to geo-reference historical maps and turn paper maps into digital GIS datasets.

9. Population Environment ChinaMap – an online system for study and analysis of Modern China Lex Berman gave lectures about ChinaMap to: Advanced GIS Workshop [Gov 1009] Spring 2011 Harvard Extension School - Geographic Communication Today DCE ISMT-E155, Spring 2011 Harvard MIT Chinese Politics Research Workshop, GSAS, Spring 2011

10. Basemaps Historical Data ChinaMap – an online system for study and analysis of Modern China Above: Qing Dynasty Entry Exams locations (symbol size shows density), overlayed on Physiographic Macroregions and the Qing Courier Routes and Stops. Right: AMS 1:250K topo map (pre-1960) overlayed with modern railways, high speed rail, and urban area (purple) near the city of Luoyang.

11. SEAS ES 103 Spatial Analysis of Environmental and Social Systems Sumeeta Srinivasan teaches several GIS and spatial analysis courses in FAS, SEAS and HSPH. Above: Conditional Plot shows the relationship between the Gender Development Index GDI, and Human development index (HDI) in Nepal with respect to spatial distribution of Infant mortality ration (IMR). Left: understanding attractive vs. repulsive point patterns helps the study of phenomena as widely varied as crimes (are burglaries and motor vehicle thefts attractive?) or plant species (certain species tend to grow together, others away from each other).

12. 12 CGA Help Desk Where: Cambridge CampusCambridge Campus Rm K-00A, Lower Level Knafel Building, CGIS 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138and Longwood CampusLongwood Campus Micro Lab, Lower Level Kresge Building 677 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 When: Tuesday, 1:30pm - 4:00pm Email: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu Website: http://gis.harvard.edu

13. GIS at HSPH

14. Broad Street cholera outbreak, London, 1854 GIS & the Origins of Public Health Source: Wikimedia Commons

15. GIS at HSPH Environmental Health – Pollution exposure, natural & built environment Society, Health and Human Development – Demography, neighborhood effects Epidemiology – Geographic patterns of disease and exposure Global Health and Population – Demography, health and geography Biostatistics – Spatial analysis

16. GIS@HSPH: Courses 1.Intro. to Spatial Methods in Public Health, GHP534, Marcia Castro – Spatial autocorrelation in health-related data – Clustering patterns – Spatial estimation of disease rates – GIS and Remote Sensing applied to health data 2.Geographical Information Using ARCGIS, BIO504*, Sumeeta Srinivasan *No longer offered

17. CGA support for GIS@HSPH Several workshops taught at HSPH Weekly office hours at HSPH Students attend summer Institute at CGA Resources used by students and researchers – CGA website with self-help resources – CGA newsletter – GIS user groups

18. IT Support for GIS: Software tools available at HSPH ArcGis ERDAS Imagine Google Earth Geocoding Statistical packages with specialized spatial analysis procedures

19. Examples of Student Work Effects of the Built Environment on Health and Health Behaviors Air Pollution and Asthma Neighborhood and school environments and youth physical activity levels. Green Space and BMI in Cairo, Egypt Health and Food Access

20. Effects of the Built Environment on Health and Health Behaviors Student work: Peter James, Environmental Health and Epidemiology, HSPH Proximity to businesses, on foot County sprawl Obesity rates

21. Air Pollution and Asthma Proximity of subjects to air monitoring stations Student work: Rima Habre, Environmental Health, HSPH

22. Health and Food Access Student work: Caitlin Eicher, Dept. of Society, Human Development, and Health, HSPH

23. BMI Distribution in Boston Youth Student work: Dustin Duncan, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, HSPH

24. GIS & Public Health: The Future, What Students and Faculty Say Core competency for any analyst dealing with quantitative data Applicable to almost every field in public health Necessary competency for my career

25. Promoting a Culture of Information Stewardship At the Graduate School of Design Harvard University Graduate School of Design Paul Cote

26. Harvard University Graduate School of Design

27. 250 Architecture50 Urban Planning 100 Urban Design100 Landscape 500 Design Students

28. GSD Studio Culture: 75% of Student effort focused on one studio problem 100 Studios per year at the GSD Focus on representing, understanding, modifying and evaluating places: Appearance & performance Many Many Models are Made!!! An intense replica of the greater world of design A Knowledge Engine

29. Information Lifecycle in Design (Business as Usual) Few Resources Fit for Re-Use End of Term Final Documents + 20 Minute Presentation Bulk of Knowledge is Lost R ETURN ON I NVESTMENT Synthesis / Study: Maps Digital 3D Models Physical 3D Models Simulation Models Working Drafts: Adobe Projects GIS Projects Video Compositions Renderings & Video Sources / Bibliography Start I NDIVIDUALS A DD C OHERENCE TO I NFORMATION Collect Resources: Site Photos GIS Data CAD Data Documents Process Understanding L ACK OF P REDICTABLE O RGANIZATION A ND D OCUMENTATION

30. Sharing / Building Societal Knowledge New Useful Understanding Lifecycle of Information in GeoDesign Paul Cote, 2008 30Evaluate: Performance & Impacts Of Alternatives Terrain Vegetation Built Systems Ground Plan Author / Modify / Synthesize: Materiality, Lighting 3D Geometry / Views, Massing, Shadows Physical 3d Models: Laser Cut, Milled, etc Visualize / Present Diagrammatic Representation Discover, Obtain, Transform & Integrate existing Information Existing Information About Places and Performance (In-House or Internet) Compile Data / Create Schema: Information Infrastructure Boards, Boards,Animations Reuseable Data, Reuseable Data,Schema,Procedures Collaborate / Share:Present:

31. 31 Promoting a culture of information stewardship Two Front Strategy: 1.Courses and Studio Support 2.Maintain a rich environment for self help and sharing

32. 32 Courses & Core Studio Support: GSD2201: Site Representation and Research Workflows for Cultivating Information in Design and Planning Practice

33. 33 Course & Studio Support: GSD2201 Site Representation and Research Workflows for Cultivating Information in Design and Planning Activities

34. 34 Course & Studio Support: GSD2201 Site Representation and Research Workflows for Cultivating Information in Design and Planning Activities Workflow Tools

35. 35 Course & Studio Support: GSD2201 Site Representation and Research Workflows for Cultivating Information in Design and Planning Activities Workflow Tools

36. 36 Demo of course web site and student projects in Google Earth Course & Studio Support: GSD2201 Site Representation and Research Workflows for Cultivating Information in Design and Planning Activities

37. 37 Flagship GIS Course GSD6322: Fundamentals of GIS. Theory and Applications Critical Viewpoint on GIS as a Way of Knowing

38. 38 GSD6322: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems GIS as a Way of Knowing

39. 39 GSD6322: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems GIS as a Way of Knowing

40. 40 GSD6322: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems GIS as a Way of Knowing Translation of problem into Conceptual and Procedural Models Eric Beaton (09)

41. 41 GSD6322: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems GIS as a Way of Knowing Estimation of spatially explicit implications of models. Eric Beaton (09)

42. 42 GSD6322: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems GIS as a Way of Knowing Eric Beaton (09) Deriving new information based on spatial relationships.

43. 43 Maintaining an Environment of Data and Tools Self Service GIS Tutorials on the Web GSD Data Collection

44. 44 Harvard Business School Carla Tishler, Director of Program Innovation Educational Technology Group 18 team members Serving: 200 faculty, 1800 MBA students, 8,000+ Executive Education participants Producing: 25-30 courseware and platforms annually

45. 45 Global Data Visualization (GDV) Business History course: Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism Elective curriculum and doctoral course Student understanding of globalization is a key theme at HBS The GDV Globalization of business from the 19 th century to the present Faculty member Geoff Jones, Professor; Director of Research, Entrepreneurial Management Low-tech, but make an impact Three versions—next version will use Google and be more modern

46. 46 Global Data Visualization (GDV) Research – Harvard undergraduate – doctoral student – HBS Baker Library Mapping research data to countries Slides from CGA Animations and design HBS

47. 47 Global Data Visualization (GDV) 37 datasets Political economy – Urbanization, literacy, League of Nations Commodities – Bananas, coffee, oil Global Corporations – Coke, Singer, Pampers Managing Distance – Sea Cables, telegraphs, mobile phone use

48. 48 Global Data Visualization (GDV) A quick walkthrough