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Training

IGIS offers a variety of training on GIS, web mapping, spatial analysis, drones, data collection, and programming. Our training portfolio includes hands-on Zoom workshops, webinars, and in-person trainings. See our current offerings of trainings below, or our old website for earlier trainings and more info.

On our IGIS YouTube Channel, you can find recordings of some of our most popular introductory core training modules, including ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Story Maps, ArcGIS Pro, Field Maps, and Pix4D Mapper, along with links in the video's descriptions for data to follow along with the hands-on exercises.

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Data Wrangling in R
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Data Wrangling in R Parts I & II

October 10 & 17, 2025. Preparing data for analysis is frequently a pain point for researchers. This two-part, hands-on workshop series will cover wrangling tabular data in R using packages from the tidyverse.
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Spatial Data Fundamentals
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Spatial Data Fundamentals in R

November 7, 2025. This hands-on workshop covers working with geospatial data in R, including how R can complement desktop GIS, importing vector spatial data from local and online sources, common spatial data manipulations, visualization, and attribute and spatial operations.
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ArcGIS Hub
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Introduction to ArcGIS Hub

November 14, 2025. This webinar will introduce ArcGIS Hub, a platform for making custom websites and data portals for teams and projects.
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Quarto Showcase

December 11, 2025. Quarto is an open-source authoring tool for creating data analysis notebooks, articles, reports, presentations, websites, blogs, and books. This webinar will demonstrate how to get started using Quarto in R, and showcase several examples from research and extension projects in UC ANR.
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