Michele Tobias
Michele Tobias holds a PhD in geography from University of California Davis, as well as an MS from University of Michigan, and a BA from UCLA. She currently works at UC Davis DataLab as a geospatial data scientist helping researchers with their data needs. Her personal research interests include using open source tools to understand California’s sandy beach vegetation and geomorphology. She also has an interest in using her geospatial skills to help underserved research communities. Michele has served on the board of directors for OSGeo (international) and Technocation (OSGeo US), as well as arts non-profit organizations, and is a founding member and coordinator of #maptimeDavis.
Sessions
Learn design principles to make maps that communicate well. This workshop is divided into two sections. The first covers concepts and approaches to designing maps. The second will provide hands-on experience making a map in QGIS.
California’s beach plants are visually similar to the sand they grow on. I will classify plant pixels using aerial imagery and elevation data using R’s spatial packages.
Come network with current, future, and former academics!
Develop skills and workflows for creating maps drawn by hand on paper. Along the way, we will also explore cartographic (map design) principles and data sources that are applicable to maps and workflows using any tool, analog or digital.