1. GIS IN GOVERNMENT AND FINANCE This ain’t your daddy’s map anymore November 13th, 2012 2:30PM-4:00Pm

5. From the Visual Teaching Alliance  FACT: Approximately 65% of the population are visual learners.  FACT: The brain processes visual information 60,000 X’s faster than text.  FACT: 90% of information that comes to the brain is visual.  FACT: 40% of all nerve fibers connected to the brain are linked to the retina.  FACT: Visual aids in the classroom improve learning by up to 400%.  FACT: Students who are twice exceptional (2e) are often visual learners.

6. Picture worth a thousand words…

7. Examples of Visuals  Verizon – “coverage” map  “Which is more” campaign

8. When does Visual not work?  When you use images not common to your audience  When the data being presented has too many elements at one time  If doing a comparison and the difference is not visually discernible

10. GIS - What is it?  Acronym – Geographic Information System (Graphical)  As Defined by ESRI - A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared. GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework.

11. The Human Brain - Relational Database

13. What can GIS Do?  Help analyze large amounts of data  Present data in an easy to understand format  Marry non-contiguous or heterogeneous data  Create “visual impact”

15. Where can we use GIS?  Fixed Assets  Identification and quantification  Budgeting  Revenue forecasting/projecting  Expense forecasting/projecting  Project Descriptions  Special Assessments  CRA’s  Disaster Recovery

16. Special Notes of interest  GIS can graph also like Excel  GIS can route like a GPS for your car  GIS can produce schedules like Excel which can be used for mail merge and other uses

17. GIS Terms for “Us”  Layer  Data Point  Polygon  Join Set  Attribute  Schedule  Address or PCN  Area or Shape  Lookup table or Crosswalk  Format or Information ThemUs

18. Remember GASB 34? Fixed Assets

19. Add layers to the map with the data you want in them…

22. And what if Amendment 4 passes? Revenue Forecasting

26. Expense Forecasting

29. Project Descriptions

33. A little challenge…

35. Can I do GIS?

36. What do you know?  ERP?  Microsoft Excel?  Microsoft Word?  Microsoft PowerPoint?  Microsoft Access?  Bing Maps?  GIS?

37. Data “Joins” – Linking by common field

39. Joins – links to your data  Some joins are only temporary or on the “fly”  Some joins are persistent and used over and over again

47. Questions?