This toolkit provides access to a variety of tools and resources! What you choose to use is up to you and other resources you have can be used if desired! Note: The use of a GIS (map based application) approach is optional! Check out the starter code provided!
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Programming / Visualization Tools | Starter Code Samples / Tutorials | GIS Datasets | Data Sets

 

Data Sets

NYS Open Data https://data.ny.gov/

Federal Open Data https://www.data.gov/

Open NYhttps://www.ny.gov/programs/open-ny

Hudson Valley Regional Council https://hudsonvalleyregionalcouncil.org/data-maps/data-map-resources/

Dept of Agriculturehttps://agriculture.ny.gov/

Farmers' Markets - https://agriculture.ny.gov/farmersmarkets

NYS Farmers' Markets https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Farmers-Markets-in-New-York-State/qq4h-8p86/data

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Programming / Visualization Tools

Colabhttps://colab.research.google.com/

Anaconda https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual

Python Official Sitehttps://www.python.org/

Jupyter Notebook https://jupyter.org/

RStudio IDEhttps://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/

Tableau Public  - https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/

QGIS https://www.qgis.org/en/site/

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Version Control  / Project Management Tools

GitHub

How to Use Github

Trello

Kumospace

Discord

Techstars Entrepreneur's Toolkit

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Starter Code Samples / Tutorials

HUD Grants GIS Example in R

Dutchess County Map Starter Code (includes R Project, Dutchess County GIS files) Additional Geo-Encoded Data Available At Top of Page (under GIS Datasets)

https://medium.com/civis-analytics/making-interactive-maps-of-public-data-in-r-d360c0e13f13

Performing Exploratory Data Analysis in Python

Data Analysis and Visualizations in R

Working with Leaflet in R

Show/Hide Layers in Leaflet (R)

Tableau How To Videos

What Is Data Visualization?

More Data Sets - By Social Cause (New York-specific)
Homelessness | Domestic Violence | Poverty | Pollution | Substance Abuse | Veterans | Public Safety | Climate Change | Public Safety | Environment | Economic Development | Digital Divide | Immigration

HUD Datasets

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GIS Datasets

Geo-Encoded Data - Dutchess County (this data can be used for a points layer on a base map)

Westchester County N. Y. GeoHub - https://gis.westchestergov.com/

Orange County N.Y. GIS - https://ocgis.orangecountygov.com/

Ulster County N.Y. GIShttps://ulstercountyny.gov/ucis/gis-data

Dutchess County N.Y. GIShttps://www.dutchessny.gov/County-Government/Geographic-Information-Systems-and-Mapping.htm

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GIS-Specific Resources

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are used to create, analyze, manage, and display geographic data.

Dutchess County GIShttps://www.dutchessny.gov/County-Government/Geographic-Information-Systems-and-Mapping.htm

eSpatially Yours - https://espatiallynewyork.com/

Westchester County GeoHub - https://gis.westchestergov.com/

GIS NYhttp://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/

Essentials of Geographic Information Systems - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/67

Geocomputation with R https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/index.html

R Spatial https://r-spatial.org/r/2018/10/25/ggplot2-sf.html

Using Spatial Data with R https://cengel.github.io/R-spatial/

Making Maps with Python https://rosenfelder.ai/create-maps-with-python/

Interactive Maps in Python https://www.earthdatascience.org/courses/scientists-guide-to-plotting-data-in-python/plot-spatial-data/customize-raster-plots/interactive-maps/

Additional Tutorials

Exploratory Data Analysis Using Python
https://towardsdatascience.com/exploratory-data-analysis-eda-python-87178e35b14

Exploratory Data Analysis Using R
https://towardsdatascience.com/exploratory-data-analysis-in-r-for-beginners-fe031add7072

Tableau Public Examples

https://public.tableau.com/app/discover

Convert Geo Files to JSON or JSON to Shapefile