Professional Development Statement
Taking Intro to GIS has been an exceptional experience this semester. It has provided me with basic knowledge of ArcGIS and it has exposed me to a variety of datasets that I have not been encountered before. My highlight of this entire course was using all the skills (select by attribute, clipping layers, creating buffers, conducting statistics, and retrieving data) that we gained from the labs and being able to translate that into our own project. In the case of my project, it could easily be scaled up with greater understanding of GIS and be conducted by planners as well as engineers for application in the real-world. As an aspiring planner this excites me, and it has made me realize that there is so much you can do with GIS.