Place to store files and tutorial notes for QGIS training sessions at NICAR 2026
QGIS stands for Quantum Geographic Information System.
It is a powerful and complex piece of mapping software but journalists can get excellent results from a couple of relatively simple functions. It’s useful for data exploration as well as for producing data maps for publication. And it’s open source.
These are the full follow-along instructions from the NICAR session with a worked example.
Please download the repo before starting.
You can follow along with the Dropbox paper tipsheets for Qgis 1 here (QGIS1 tutorial: https://bit.ly/4ae19x7) and Qgis 2 here (QGIS 2 tutorial: https://bit.ly/4qh2M2Y).