CRD 150: Quantitative Methods in Community Research
Professor Noli Brazil
University of California, Davis
Department of Human Ecology, Community and Regional Development
Welcome to the CRD 150 website! This website complements the class Canvas site.
On this website you will find:
- An abridged syllabus
- Assignment guidelines
- Lab and homework assignment material
On Canvas you will find:
- A detailed syllabus
- Reading material
- Lecture slides
- Data for labs/assignments
- Project and quiz material
- Submit your homework
- Grades
About the class
This course is an introduction to the use of statistical methods and tools to uncover, understand and conceptualize patterns in data. The empirical and theoretical emphasis will be on the community; that is, the class will give you the methodological skills to use data to better describe communities and examine community-level phenomena. You will work with both nonspatial and spatial data from traditional (e.g. U.S. Census) and nontraditional sources (e.g. open data portals). Specific topics covered include data acquisition, management, and presentation (graphs, tables, maps), descriptive analysis (opportunity mapping, spatial clustering), citizen science, and measuring place-based inequalities. Lectures will present abstract statistical concepts alongside data analysis examples motivated through real-world problems. Labs will provide hands-on practice of the methods covered in lecture using software programs (R, ArcGIS Online).
Giving Credit
The following websites were used in the construction of this course website. My gratitude to the people who invested their time and effort in developing and offering these valuable resources to the public.
- Manuel Gimond’s Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis
- Claudia Engel’s Using Spatial Data in R
- Corey Sparks’ RPubs labs
- The Center for Spatial Data Science Tutorials
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