Welcome to aggis.org!
Welcome and thank you for visiting my cartography portfolio. I'm Aaron Goodman, a GIS graduate student with a passion for music history and fantasy world-building. While this website primarily catalogs the development of my GIS technical skills, I have increasingly found ways to apply this skillset to the examination of humanistic questions in fields familiar and unfamiliar to me.
Having majored in ethnomusicology and anthropology for my undergraduate studies, it has been exciting and strange to learn new ways to visualize data which relate to objects or processes that are not truly reducible to “data”. Nonetheless, because visualizations play such a supportive role in the classroom and beyond, I think it is essential that humanists have a critical hand in refining real life and human history into data to be displayed on a map.
The various sections of this website pertain to:
UCLA Extension projects (GIS and Geospatial Technology Certificate)
UCLA MAGIST projects (Master of Applied Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies)
Extracurricular projects
The topics covered in my mapping projects for school vary widely, due to their respective assignments. As I wrap up my master’s degree, I am eager to experiment more with “Time Series” or animated maps as a tool for visualizing historical trends. Especially as I consider library school in the future, I heed the potential of GIS to provide powerful, additive pedagogical tools for the study of human history at all grade levels.
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