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The Five-Step GIS Analysis Process - Coggle Diagram
The Five-Step GIS Analysis Process
1.) Frame the question
Each sub-question should address a different, but relevant part of the main topic. Thinking about which tools can help you find the relevant data may be helpful.
If the sub-questions don't expand on the original idea, try re-framing the topic.
By framing the high-level question in a way that allows a number of sub-questions, the GIS tools and methods used can be determined.
2.) Explore and prepare data
Ask questions regarding the data. Explore its format, details, and how it pertains to your questions.
Organize the data to make it easier to find. As well as extract the aspects of the data that you need. This can help visualize and process the data.
Take a look at demographic, spatial, or population data, and determine what is useful and relevant to your topic. Make sure your analysis tools will accept the data and begin to prepare it.
3.) Choose analysis methods and tools
Now's the time to determine which analysis tools and methods would be useful for your data. Now that you have your data begin to answer the questions you framed in Step 1.
Look at trends and distribution and see how they relate to each other and answer the question.
Outlay the data in a way that helps to break down and analyze the data. You may use different colors, or diagrams. However, it must be easy to read for the next step.
4.) Perform the analysis
Utilizing maps, legends and colors may help interpret the data. The tools may also help find the correlation between the data you've collected and the initial questions
Refine and summarize your findings once you've analyzed everything.
If you have diagrammed extensively in Step 3, then follow your plan. For more complicated analyses, break it down to easy steps.
5.) Examine and refine results
Be sure to reference the analysis to back up the claims you made.
Once your data is complete, you may start interpreting and examining just what the data means and it's relation to your questions in terms of a result.