Introduction to QGIS
- Open to
- Anyone
- Training category
- Geospatial
- Type of training
- Online
- Length
- 2 to 3 hours
- Provider
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geospatial Team
- Location
- Online
This course provides an introduction to working with geospatial data in QGIS for data scientists and those new to GIS and geography.
QGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) software that is free and open-source. QGIS was previously also known as Quantum GIS.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course you will know how to:
- navigate QGIS User Interface
- create, save, and customise a QGIS project
- import and export tables and spatial data to and from QGIS
- use basic GIS tools to process geospatial data
- edit geospatial data and perform a basic analysis
- style layers to visualise the underlying data
- create a basic geospatial data visualisation
How to book
You can access this course on the ONS Geography GitHub.
Contact
If you would like more information about this course, please email ONS.Geography@ons.gov.uk