Geographic Information Systems (GIS) refers to a software and information collection used to sort and evaluate data about geographic places, analyze spatial relationships, and model spatial processes. For general questions, email csde_help@uw.edu.
To make a GIS consulting appointment, see the CSDE Science Core Consultation Request form.
Services
CSDE offers the following GIS and spatial analysis support to affiliates, staff, and demography students at UW:
After creating a CSDE Windows Account, CSDE affiliates, staff, and demography students have access to GIS and many other computing resources on and off campus. CSDE terminal servers have ESRI’s ArcGIS installed; CSDE’s Computing Resources provides more information about their use.
Short workshops in a computer-lab setting. Popular offerings include:
Projects
“Local Health Department Food Safety and Sanitation Expenditures and Reductions in Enteric Disease, 2000–2010” (2015)
“Classifying local health departments based on the constellation of services they provide” (2014)
“Targeted Health Department Expenditures Benefit Birth Outcomes at the County Level” (2014)
“Local Health Departments and specific maternal and child health expenditures: Relationships between spending and need” (2012)
“Local health department provision of WIC Services relative to local “need”— examining 3 states and 5 years” (2012)