November 18th is National Geographic Information System (GIS) Day. According to the Oxford dictionary, GIS is an integrated, spatial, data-handling programmes which will collect, store, and retrieve spatial data from the real world. When you think GIS, you may think Google Maps, anything that may request “location services”, or delivery tracking, but GIS can also be powerful tools in decision-making, as they can incorporate coordinated data.
For more information about how you could use GIS data for your research, check out the Geographic Information Systems/Science library guide or Research Computing’s information on supported software.
This post was written by Paige Scudder, a Research and Education Librarian for the Biomedical Libraries.
