NYC Demographic Analysis Workshop Announcement (offered in all major cities)

New York Demographic Analysis Workshop Announcement - One Day Workshop

When: May 12th, 13th or 14th 2004

Where: The Career Center Computer Lab, 185 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Fee: $225 for credit card at the time of sign up, $249 regular price

How To Register? Visit www.smartgirltechnologies.com or call us toll free
at 877-241-6576.

The Local Demographic Analysis Workshop™ (LDAW) will teach you to extract,query,
download, analyze, map and present 2002-1990 demographic data for NYC and
surrounding communities. Such data can provide grant writers, social researchers
and community planners with powerful tools for analyzing community changes.

Participants receive a comprehensive workbook that includes the workshop
presentation, exercises, reference materials and a valuable Demographic Data
Resource CD. This CD includes useful GIS tools such as ArcExplorer and
several shapefiles for all communities in the United States. Also included
is the 2003 US Statistical Abstract which includes an extensive selection
of statistics for the United States, with selected data for states, metropolitan
areas and cities.

This workshop will:

Teach you to extract, query, download, analyze, map and present 2000-1990
Census and 2002 American Community Survey data that includes Income,
Race/Ethnicity, Age, Housing, Language and Transportation;

Teach you to construct a Local Community Change Profile™. The Profile is
comprised of 25 key demographic variables and customized for NYC and a
Census tract within NYC (participants may also substitute their own community);

Teach you analytical, demographic and spatial analysis techniques including
commonly used mathematical formulas to transform raw data into compelling
information;

Teach you about Census geography including common problems such as working
with non-Census boundaries, analyzing change over time despite boundary changes
and how to use new mapping functionality recently built in to American
Factfinder;

Provide you with an extensive LDAW workbook that includes the a copy of the
presentation, exercises, exercise answers and written reference materials;

Provide a valuable Demographic Data Resource CD™ that includes useful GIS
tools such as ArcExplorer, a free map browser produced by ESRI;

Provide several boundary shapefiles such as tracts, counties, cities,water
and school district boundaries for the entire United States;

Learn techniques to present data in clear, compelling ways in terms of
tabular, graphical and spatial data.

New York Governor's Office For Small Cities, , NYC, 2003
"It was extremely useful to see the application of real data and performing
meaningful demographic analysis. The workshop was easy to follow, not bogged
down with theory, very user friendly."

City Harvest, NYC, 2002
"Thanks a lot! I will definitely use these analysis techniques to enhance
grant proposals and presentations."

NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy, NYC, 2002
"This workshop presented a clear and precise overview. It was very useful!"
A
ction for Boston Community Development, Boston, MA 2003
"The materials were excellent and what I liked best about the course was
that it was hands on. The class was very helpful and useful."

Smartgirl Technologies, Inc. is a social research company located in
Portland, Oregon. For more information about the workshop, who we are and
what we do, check out our website at www.smartgirltechnologies.com.