Earn Degree Credit If you're admitted to the Master of Arts in Geography from the University of California, Davis, your MasterTrack coursework counts towards your degree.

About this Online Certificate Program

Learn how to analyze and visualize spatial data as a data scientist.

Industry areas that rely on skills in spatial data analysis, remote sensing, cartography and data visualization are growing at accelerated rates. Through this graduate-level online certificate program, you’ll gain the skills and knowledge you need in GIS, using ArcGIS Pro, and Python programming language to advance in your career.

Through real-world projects designed by UC Davis faculty, offered in partnership with ArcGIS developer Esri, you’ll learn how to apply data analysis and visualization techniques that are vital to solving business problems. You’ll also benefit from graded feedback from instructors and engage in live sessions with a group of high caliber peers.

By committing 8-10 hours of online study per week for six months, you will earn a Certificate of Completion in Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization from UC Davis and have the credentials in spatial decision support systems and cartography to help you land the job you want.

100% online courses
$3,000
Option to pay all at once, or in four separate installments
6 months to complete
Intermediate Level
You should have undergraduate education or professional experience with GIS. Need a refresher? Start with the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization on Coursera.
3 hands-on projects
Questions?
Please contact the University of California, Davis at (800)752-0881 or spatialdatamastertrack@ucdavis.edu.
Earn degree credit
If you are admitted to the full Master’s program, your MasterTrack™ courses counts towards your degree.

What you will learn

Conduct spatial analysis and modeling with Python
Use Python to customize script and geoprocessing tools as part of your overall geodatabase administration
Utilize remote sensing imagery and hyperspectral imagery to explore images in greater detail
Produce attractive, easy-to-understand maps and geospatial models
Make informed decisions about spatial information design and mapping and follow through with them in ArcGIS Pro

Skills you will gain

Geographic Information System (GIS)
ArcGIS Pro
Python Programming Language
Spatial Data Analysis
Spatial Information Design
Data Visualization
Geospatial Modeling

100% online courses
$3,000
Option to pay all at once, or in four separate installments
6 months to complete
Intermediate Level
You should have undergraduate education or professional experience with GIS. Need a refresher? Start with the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization on Coursera.
3 hands-on projects
Questions?
Please contact the University of California, Davis at (800)752-0881 or spatialdatamastertrack@ucdavis.edu.
Earn degree credit
If you are admitted to the full Master’s program, your MasterTrack™ courses counts towards your degree.

What is a MasterTrack™ Certificate?

With MasterTrack™ Certificates, portions of Master’s programs have been split into online modules, so you can earn a high quality university-issued career credential at a breakthrough price in a flexible, interactive format. Benefit from a deeply engaging learning experience with real-world projects and live, expert instruction. If you are accepted to the full Master's program, your MasterTrack coursework counts towards your degree.

Master’s Degree Learning

Take an online module of the UC Davis Master of Arts in Geography program that features live webinars and an interactive team-based project.

Boost Your Career

Receive a Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization Certificate of Completion from UC Davis that you can add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.

Build Your Portfolio

Demonstrate your data science skills through real-world projects and create work samples that help you stand out in your job search.

Start Your Degree

If you are accepted to the UC Davis Master of Arts in Geography, your completed MasterTrack coursework counts towards your degree.

Interactive Learning Experience

You'll learn through readings, videos, graded assignments, real-world applied projects, and live global classroom sessions.

Live Global Webinars

Feedback from Instructors and Experts

Real-World Projects

3 Courses in this MasterTrack™ Program

Includes:

Pre-recorded videos
Live sessions and office hours
Real-world projects
Peer collaboration
Web and mobile access

Please note: This program is actively being developed. Courses and projects are subject to change.

Spatial Analysis with Data Handling

This course will allow you to take your GIS skills to the next level, all while working in ArcGIS Pro. Topics will cover a wide range of applications and concepts. You will use Survey123, to populate, analyze and present data results surveyed from fellow cohorts to design and implement your own surveys using ArcGIS Collector, to gain hands-on experience in data visualization.

The course will also explore the utility of using applications to establish topography rules to streamline and create accurate data. Using data from the United States Census, you will explore the value that this information can have on environmental justice and public health issues. Topographic topics will include derivatives of Digital Elevation Models, with various methods for display and analysis, as well as 2D and 3D representation, complete with the generation and export of a fly-through animation video. You will also use Model Builder and Python to build tools to automate repeated tasks, enable others to make changes in the workflow, or evaluate the results.

Start March 2, 20203-6 hours per week

See all 3 Courses

Industry-relevant hands-on projects to build your portfolio

Spatial Data Handling with Python

You will explore the basics of spatial data types and their representation in Python. You manipulate spatial data and use vector and raster type data to become proficient in reading, subsetting, spatial queries and transformations.

Project 1

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Reading and writing spatial data into Python
Extracting raster values with vector objects
Manipulating vector data in Python (union, intersect, aggregate, etc.)
Manipulating raster data in Python (crop, mask, reclassify, etc.)
Spatial data concepts (vector, raster, coordinate reference systems)

Analyzing Spatial Data

You’ll use spatial statistics to solve three exercises throughout the course: point pattern analysis (with examples from ecology and health), regression with spatial data (with examples from the social sciences), and spatio-temporal data (with examples from the environmental sciences).

Project 2

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Basic statistical concepts of spatial data, such as autocorrelation and scale
Exploration and statistical modeling with spatio-temporal data
Global and local measures of spatial autocorrelation
Global and local regression with spatial data
Point pattern analysis

Multimodal Map Making (Team Project)

Design a beautiful and complex map that clearly communicates a message to your target audience. In this final project, you’ll work with a team to transform raw data into an engaging poster, print map, and PowerPoint slide that demonstrates your ability to convey important concepts in an engaging presentation format.

Project 3

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Visual data hierarchy and color correspondence
Design features like a legend, north arrow, scale bar, credits for data sources, author list, and other relevant supporting elements
Settings that make the map appealing and viewer-friendly (alignment, contrast, repetition, balance, space)

Instructors

Jahelel Lee (JayLee) Tuil

Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing, UC Davis

Robert Mazur

GIS Manager at PlaceWorks

Nick Santos

Geospatial Applications Researcher, Center for Watershed Sciences

Frequently Asked Questions

The University of California, Davis is one of the premier public universities in the United States. According to US News and World Reports, UC Davis ranks 5th among all public universities in the nation, 2nd in the field of Agricultural Science, and 7th in Environment/Ecology studies. The quality of its faculty and research and its commitment to creating an inclusive learning environment has also earned it a global reputation for excellence. In the 2018 ranking of global universities, QS World Ranking listed UC Davis as 100th overall, and it ranks 11th among U.S. universities in number of international scholars.
UC Davis is the vanguard of spatial data technologies and analysis education. It teaches and applies this field of study across numerous disciplines, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary research and application. Its commitment to this vital and growing field is reflected in the Center for Spatial Sciences that brings together UC Davis faculty, staff and students interested in spatial data analysis. It also has a Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS), which has been on the forefront of environmental applications of remote sensing and geospatial data for over three decades.
Once you have completed your MasterTrack Certificate in Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization with a C or better, you will receive professional academic credit. Upon admission to the Master of Arts in Geography degree program from UC Davis, your Mastertrack Certificate will equate to approximately 17% of course requirements, allowing you to get a headstart on your degree.
You will have access to your onboarding course and all available course content immediately after enrolling and paying. Once the first course officially begins, you’ll be able to ask questions from the teaching team, get feedback on your projects, and work with fellow peers on group assignments.
You will get access to all MasterTrack courses. You will also get feedback from the teaching team on your projects. You’ll be working with an elite network of peers to reach your goals.
No. MasterTrack courses are available only to learners who have paid for the program.
You will have two weeks after the start of the first course session to get a refund on your payment.
Financial assistance is not available at this time for MasterTrack courses.
Please contact the University of California, Davis at (800) 752-0881 or spatialdatamastertrack@ucdavis.edu.

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Coursera does not grant academic credit; the decision to grant, accept, or recognize academic credit, and the process for awarding such credit, is at the sole discretion of the academic institutions offering the MasterTrack™ Certificate program and/or other institutions that have determined that completion of the program may be worthy of academic credit. Completion of a MasterTrack™ Certificate program does not guarantee admission into the full Master’s program referenced herein, or any other degree program.

Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization MasterTrack™ Program

Solve real-world problems using geographic information systems with ArcGIS Pro and Python programming language with a top 5 public university in the U.S.

Enroll today

Learn how to analyze and visualize spatial data as a data scientist.

100% online courses

$3,000

6 months to complete

Intermediate Level

3 hands-on projects

Questions?

Earn degree credit

What you will learn

Skills you will gain

100% online courses

$3,000

6 months to complete

Intermediate Level

3 hands-on projects

Questions?

Earn degree credit

What is a MasterTrack™ Certificate?

Master’s Degree Learning

Boost Your Career

Build Your Portfolio

Start Your Degree

Interactive Learning Experience

Live Global Webinars

Feedback from Instructors and Experts

Real-World Projects

3 Courses in this MasterTrack™ Program

Spatial Analysis with Data Handling

Industry-relevant hands-on projects to build your portfolio

Spatial Data Handling with Python

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Analyzing Spatial Data

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Multimodal Map Making (Team Project)

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Instructors

Jahelel Lee (JayLee) Tuil

Robert Mazur

Nick Santos

Frequently Asked Questions