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Hello, Fresh Learner Starting GIS Journey

JacobReilly — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:28:02 GMT

Hello,

I am Jacob, an Environmental Science major working my way through college. I decided to learn GIS on my own time and plan to also learn Python for now and other coding in the future. I am interested in working with watersheds and doing habitat remediation. I hope to use GIS to apply data in a way that can help bring about positive change.

Re: Hello, Fresh Learner Starting GIS Journey

Anonymous User — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:18:04 GMT

Welcome and Happy new Year !!!!!!!!!

Re: Hello, Fresh Learner Starting GIS Journey

jcarlson — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 22:06:04 GMT

Welcome! Python is a great place to start digging in. Things you may want to look into, if you haven't already:

Anaconda, for managing Python and R environments
Jupyter Notebooks
Setting up with GitHub / VS Code to manage your notebooks and share your work
The GeoPandas and Pandas Python libraries
Bokeh / Matplotlib for making snazzy visualizations of your work

Great GIS Python tutorials are easily found both on ESRI pages and elsewhere. Good luck!

Re: Hello, Fresh Learner Starting GIS Journey

Anonymous User — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:36:26 GMT

Hi @JacobReilly

Welcome to the world of GIS, Here is a link to find a number of courses and an introductory to GIS and Esri

Esri Training Catalog | Find Courses on GIS and ArcGIS Topics

Let us know if you have any questions.