Mapping and Analysis (Tools and Presentations)

Tools and Presentations are organized into the following categories:
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Quick Guides and How-To Documents
Mapping and Spatial Analysis Tools
Presentations and Posters
Best Practices and Recommendations

Quick and Easy How-To GIS Documents

Using Google Maps, Google Earth, and ArcGIS Online to Make Maps
A quick guide that explains how to use these free products to make a map

Exploring Maps of Colorado's Socio-Demographics (by Census Tract)
Learn how to connect to a free resource for mapping community-level education, poverty, income, and population by race/ethnicity estimates

Mapping and Spatial Analysis Tools

SaTScan
A free software (available for download) that analyzes locational data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics.

GeoMasking Tools
A free software (available for download) from the N.Y. State Dept of Health that provides point dispersion tools to assist in mapping sensitive or confidential locational data. Help documentation

A guide to using the ArcGIS Spatial Statistics Toolbox
Presentation includes information on how to use the Spatial Statistics tools available in ArcGIS Desktop software.

Presentations and Posters (Using GIS in Public Health)

Map Based Websites: Visualizing Colorado's Public Health Landscape
Public Health in the Rockies, September 2011

Using GIS in HIV Surveillance: Colorado's Perspective: Process and Products and What's Next
HIV Surveillance Workshop, July 2011

Designing an Atlas of Public Health for Colorado
Explore the framework for developing a Colorado public health atlas

Enhancing the Use of Geography in a HIV/AIDS Surveillance Program
Explore different mapping techniques used to model HIV/AIDS surveillance data

GIS & Mapping @ CDPHE: Best Practices and Recommendations