Academic Year:
2025/26
419 - Degree in Geography and Land Management
28313 - Geography: data and information processing
Teaching Plan Information
Academic year:
2025/26
Subject:
28313 - Geography: data and information processing
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
419 - Degree in Geography and Land Management
ECTS:
9.0
Year:
2
Semester:
Annual
Subject type:
Compulsory
Module:
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1. General information
The final goal of this subject, which is taken in the second year of the degree, is that students are able to handle, interpret and evaluate, through a basic statistical analysis, information from various sources of information.
Through these analyses, the student must be able to draw up synthetic reports containing objective quantitative and qualitative evaluationsthat will enable them to solve problems and facilitate appropriate decision-making in their future career in the different fields of Geography.
These approaches and goals are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda 4, Quality Education.
Basic computer skills are recommended.
2. Learning results
The student, in order to pass this subject, must demonstrate the following results.
Obtain, analyze and graphically represent information from different sources and characteristics.
Manage spreadsheets and statistical packages.
Manage and apply basic statistical methods, techniques and tools applied in different branches of Geography.
Describe statistically and graphically data from different sources of information used in Geography and Spatial Planning.
Synthesize information through the selection of appropriate statistics.
Identify and quantify differences, similarities and relationships between variables associated with different data populations.
Prepare summary reports containing objective quantitative and qualitative assessments of geographic information sources.
3. Syllabus
Thematic block 0.
Unit 1. Nature of geographic information: spatial units, thematic, temporal and topological component.
Unit 2. Sources and obtaining information: problems and types.
Unit 3. Data quality.
Thematic block 1.
Unit 4. Introduction and initial considerations in the treatment of information.
Unit 5. Descriptive statistics: measures of centrality, dispersion and shape.
Unit 6. Distributions: types of variables, distributions for continuous and discrete variables.
Thematic block 2.
Unit 7. Probability: concept and calculation.
Unit 8. Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.
Unit 9. Independence and association of quantitative variables: correlation and simple linear regression.
Unit 10. Multiple linear regression analysis.
Thematic block 3.
Unit 11. Comparisons between variables from two or more populations: one-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Unit 12. Analysis of factorial variance.
Seminar: Geographic Information Systems and spatial statistics.
4. Academic activities
The subject has a theoretical-practical orientation, in such a way that the topics proposed begin with theoretical presentations by the tecaher, and this development is then combined with practical sessions using spreadsheets (Excel), statistical packages (SPSS; R) and Geographic Information Systems (ArcGIS).
In parallel to the presentation of contents, case studies, exercise resolution and work directed by the professor are carried out by the teacher.
An extensive volume of materials is made available to students on the course web page, accessible through the Digital Teaching Ring through the Digital Teaching Ring: presentations used in class, data files, software for data processing, etc.
5. Assessment system
a) Continuous assessment system
1) At the end of each of the thematic blocks, a practical exercise of application of the exposed contents will be carried out (60% of the grade).
2) Presentation and defense of each block of practical work done by each student (40% of the grade).
The student must pass with a minimum of 4 points out of 10 each of the exercises corresponding to the thematic blocks , as well as the presentation and defense of each practical work. Otherwise, the student must pass the test of for the global evaluation of the questions corresponding to the blocks not passed.
Assessment criteria: Correctness of the contents, adequacy and correctness of the techniques and methods used, correct designof the graphic representations, adequate and careful presentation.
Global assessment test
1) Completion of a final theoretical-practical knowledge exercise. The exercise will consist of one question referring to each one of the thematic blocks.
In order to pass this test, a minimum score of 4 out of 10 must be obtained for each of the questions. (60% of the final grade).
2) Presentation of a report containing the practical works corresponding to each block. This report must be submitted on the exam date set in the academic calendar (40% of the final grade).
Assessment criteria: Correctness of the contents, adequacy and correctness of the techniques and methods used, correct designof the graphic representations, adequate and careful presentation.
6. Sustainable Development Goals
4 - Quality Education