Library Guides: Public Health Portal: GeocodingResources

Geocoding Resouces

If you have address-based data that you wish to map in GIS, you'll need to assign latitude and longitude coordinates to your data so you can plot them as points.

Texas A&M Geocoding Service
The Texas A&M GIS Lab provides a number of geocoding services for translating addresses.
Geospatial Modeling Environment
Open source platform designed to help to facilitate rigorous spatial analysis and modelling

Data visualization

PolicyMap
Trial through May, 2017

Data Planet Statistical Datasets
Quickly search and view charts, maps, and rankings of time series at the country, state, county, MSA, postal code, and census-tract/block group levels. All of the data are drawn from authoritative sources and are citable.
Social Explorer
Demographic data visualization and research website designed to engage users through dynamic maps and customizable reports

Instructions for using Data-Planet Statistical Ready Reference

Data Planet
International data includes China Data Center, World Bank, Healthcare Utilization Project, EPA, USDA, CDC, etc. 13 data sets include consumer behavior, demographics, health, quality of life

Also includes EASI Market Planner with 13 data sets covering consumer behavior, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, consumer spending analytics, demographics, gross domestic product, health, industries, life stages, media, quality of life, and retail sales.

Tutorials

Using Open Street Maps
ArcGIS Tips and Tricks from Tufts
Great collection of tutorials for learning how to use ArcGIS functions and services. Includes tutorial on how to map drives, uncompress files, using census data, geocoding and georeferencing and more.
MIT GIS Tutorial
Tutorials created by MIT. Include exercises and sample data. These tutorials are a great way to get your feet wet and practice your skills.
University of Arkansas ArcGIS Desktop Tutorial
Six tutorials that describe common operations and functions used to manipulate and/or analyze spatial datasets
Learn ArcGIS
ESRI