Data analysis, knowing how to organize and interpret data to gain useful information, is a key planning skill and crucial to informing policy decisions, resource allocation, and urban design. Data analysis courses will bring you up to speed with the latest tools and techniques for understanding the vast amounts of informations available to planners today.
All Data Analysis Courses
Area-Based Location Optimization: Urban Green Space Selection
Instructor: Kevin Credit
By the end of this course you will understand the basic principles of area-based location optimization and be able to solve the knapsack, threshold, and shape problems using LINGO software. The course also shows how to map the results of these skills in QGIS.
Urban Design for Planners 8: Parking and Traffic
Instructor: Emily Talen
The final course in the Urban Design for Planners series addresses the automobile as part of the urban fabric. The storage of cars and high levels of congestion can be very detrimental to neighborhoods, but good design can mitigate those negative effects.