November 13th, 2012 2:30PM-4:00Pm

GIS IN GOVERNMENT AND FINANCEThis ain’t your daddy’s map anymore

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From the Visual Teaching Alliance FACT: Approximately 65% of the population are visual learners.

FACT: The brain processes visual information 60,000 X’s faster than text.

FACT: 90% of information that comes to the brain is visual.

FACT: 40% of all nerve fibers connected to the brain are linked to the retina.

FACT: Visual aids in the classroom improve learning by up to 400%.

FACT: Students who are twice exceptional (2e) are often visual learners.

Picture worth a thousand words…

Examples of Visuals Verizon – “coverage” map

“Which is more” campaign

When does Visual not work? When you use images not common to

your audience When the data being presented has too

many elements at one time If doing a comparison and the difference

is not visually discernible

GIS - What is it? Acronym – Geographic Information System (Graphical)

As Defined by ESRI - A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared. GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework.

The Human Brain - Relational Database

What can GIS Do? Help analyze large amounts of data Present data in an easy to understand

format Marry non-contiguous or heterogeneous

data Create “visual impact”

Where can we use GIS? Fixed Assets

Identification and quantification Budgeting

Revenue forecasting/projecting Expense forecasting/projecting

Project Descriptions Special Assessments CRA’s

Disaster Recovery

Special Notes of interest GIS can graph also like Excel

GIS can route like a GPS for your car

GIS can produce schedules like Excel which can be used for mail merge and other uses

GIS Terms for “Us”

Layer Data Point Polygon Join Set Attribute

Schedule Address or PCN Area or Shape Lookup table or

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Them Us

Remember GASB 34?

Fixed Assets

Add layers to the map with the data you want in them…

And what if Amendment 4 passes?

Revenue Forecasting

Expense Forecasting

Project Descriptions

A little challenge…

Can I do GIS?

What do you know? ERP? Microsoft Excel? Microsoft Word? Microsoft PowerPoint? Microsoft Access? Bing Maps?

GIS?

Data “Joins” – Linking by common field

Joins – links to your data Some joins are only temporary or on the

“fly” Some joins are persistent and used over

and over again

Questions?