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Lecture Notes

Any references to 'Athena' refer to MIT's campus-wide, UNIX based computing environment.
Lecture 1 - Overview (PDF)

Lecture 2 - GIS Principles and Methods (PDF)

Lecture 3 - Database Fundamentals (PDF)

Lecture 4 - Introduction to SQL (PDF)

Lecture 5 - Making Sense of the Census (PDF)

  • STF/SF 1 (TXT)
  • The way variable values are encoded makes identifying the meaning of variables difficult (TXT)
  • STF 3A Variable Locator (TXT)

Lecture 6 - Making Sense of the Census Part 2 (PDF)

  • Accessing Census Data in ArcView (PDF)
    • Summary Technical File documentation (PDF)
    • 2000 Census Variable Locator (TXT)

  • Review of Lecture 5 - Census Review (PDF)

  • Accessing 2000 Census Files (PDF)

  • Accessing 1990 Census Files (PDF)

  • Geolytic's CDs (PDF)

Lecture 7 - More on Databases:  A Review of Lectures 4 and 5 (PDF)

Lectures 8 and 9 - Spatial Data Models (PDF)

Lecture 10 - Geocoding (PDF)