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About the Course

In this course, the second in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization, you will go in-depth with common data types (such as raster and vector data), structures, quality and storage during four week-long modules: Week 1: Learn about data models and formats, including a full understanding of vector data and raster concepts. You will also learn about the implications of a data’s scale and how to load layers from web services. Week 2: Create a vector data model by using vector attribute tables, writing query strings, defining queries, and adding and calculating fields. You'll also learn how to create new data through the process of digitizing and you'll use the built-in Editor tools in ArcGIS. Week 3: Learn about common data storage mechanisms within GIS, including geodatabases and shapefiles. Learn how to choose between them for your projects and how to optimize them for speed and size. You'll also work with rasters for the first time, using digital elevation models and creating slope and distance analysis products. Week 4: Explore datasets and assess them for quality and uncertainty. You will also learn how to bring your maps and data to the Internet and create web maps quickly with ArcGIS Online. Take GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality as a standalone course or as part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization. You should have equivalent experience to completing the first course in this specialization, Fundamentals of GIS, before taking this course. By completing the second class in the Specialization you will gain the skills needed to succeed in the full program....

Top reviews

LT

Dec 25, 2018

Great course. Quite challenging, huge amount of info shared and employed in the assignments. This makes the course very thorough yet as mentioned, challenging to complete. Not for the faint at heart!

SS

Apr 30, 2016

Awesome..... The lectures are very helpful to the students or gis learners who wants to do some on-line, especially the final project was awesome... i really enjoyed and learned much more things...

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By Mariana L

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Mar 16, 2024

This course advanced the previous courses topics well, but there was a lot of overlap from the last courses final assignment i wish had been skipped. Overall still a great course, the projects were challenging but really forced you to learn the troubleshooting skills being a data analyst requires.

By Meg N

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Jul 19, 2020

I learned a lot in this course. The only thing that I could say needs improving is to give answers to the open-ended questions posed in the tutorials. I really wanted to know the answers. Overall, I think that I am way more knowledgeable about ArcGIS than I was before I began this course.

By Adam S

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Aug 22, 2016

Peer Review system needs an overhaul. I would suggest increasing the number of reviews required by each student so you one incorrect (based on user error) review does not influence your grade so significantly.

Otherwise, this is an informative and useful course.

By Sean B

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Dec 19, 2017

I would have given it 5 stars, but Tutorial Assignment 3 was written as though it was pulled from another course without editing, and contained references to file paths and names that didn't match the reality of the course and required some deduction to sort out.

By Timothy R A S

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Apr 19, 2021

A lot of good new material. One comment would be to adjust the file name for the directory in the Valmeyer Assignment data given to us, so it does not have the .gdb as part of the directory name. That creates problems deep into the assignment.

By Mathew M

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Aug 8, 2017

Content is excellent. It does go by very fast and a lot of key elements of tools are glossed over... so you need to watch many of the lessons more than once in order to complete the final project unless you have done this work before.

By L J

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Feb 21, 2021

Great content. Tutorials are well designed and allowed me to practice the theory in preparation for the graded assignment. Thank you to the team for a well-put-together course and delivered in an easy-to-understand manner.

By Andrew R

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Dec 30, 2017

I understand that all the information presented here is valuable but the subject matter was a little more dry than the first course in the specialisation. Nonetheless, it was very well put together and I learned a lot.

By FREDDY N R P

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May 25, 2022

Es un muy buen curso! Sin embargo, considero que algunos temas podrían actualizarse un poco más especialmente en los formatos de datos, como los web map services, Geo Packages, KML, y GeoJSON entre otros.

By Sarah V

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Sep 12, 2018

Great information and weekly assignments/lectures. The final project, at times, was very difficult and I did not receive much mentor help. It was still a doable assignment and was able to pass.

By Alex G

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Jun 18, 2018

This course was more difficult than I expected, but provided good video lectures and plenty of examples to help me better understand some of the many things that can be done with GIS.

By Holly S

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Jan 26, 2017

I didn't love the final project for this. It took a lot of time due to some software glitches. Seems like that is unnecessary and should be better managed in the future.

By Jason M

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Oct 11, 2016

More in-depth work with ArcMap and associated principles. Redundant to a degree with the intro to the specialization, but good blend of instruction and assignments.

By Sylvester N

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Oct 7, 2023

Coursera is a good educational platform, it singularly enable me to learn new thins from scratch, I really appreciate them for bring this kind of initiative

By Zannis K

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Sep 2, 2018

Really nice intro to working with rasters and performing calculations based on them, either to produce new rasters or in comparison with vector data.

By Fatma Ö

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Sep 12, 2022

I enjoyed the second part of the GIS specialisation program. It was challanging but classes were clear. Looking forward to proceed with the rest.

By Narayanan S

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Apr 9, 2018

I found the final quiz to be slightly tricky. But could crack it with the support of the members from the discussion forum.

Thank you Coursera

By Sai P T P

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Aug 25, 2020

A little boring at first in this course, but it become interesting later. A little difficult to doing assignment. But it is cool.

By Francisca D A

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Oct 28, 2020

Muy buen curso. Super clara la información y muy didáctico . Hay que dedicarle varias horas a la semana, pero vale la pena.

By Paolo E Y C

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Oct 29, 2024

there were quite a bit of things that were hard to understand and perform some had missing data and some had weird grammar

By Pedro P

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Jun 2, 2020

Everything great except for the web lesson. Very nice assigments. You can feel how much work is behind this course.

By Jesse B

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Mar 1, 2017

Introduces some good spatial analysis techniques. You learn how to integrate raster and vector data.

By Kyle

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Jan 8, 2020

Nick is a great and friendly instructor. Assignment was challenging, generally in a good way.

By Andres F V M

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Sep 28, 2020

Buen curso, bastante claro en las lecciones y las multiples aplicaciones que se le puede dar

By Nancy V W

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Jun 25, 2017

This is a very good course and would recommend it to anyone interested in learning GIS.