Step 1

Download QGIS
Download Data

Step 2

Navigation and Toolbars

• Saving your project
  
• View Button
  
• Toolbox Search
  

• Plugins

  Searching and changing your basemaps

Try on your own: Change the basemap to something cool.

Step 3

Adding in different types of data:

1. U.S. County shapefile from NHGIS
2. 2020 Population table from NHGIS
3. Meteorite Landings from NASA
   

Try on your own: Check out our GIS Research Guide for more data resources.

Step 4

Spatial Tools and Symbology

1. Tool: Join Attributes by Field Value
   
   • Make a choropleth map
     
   • Make a proportional dot symbology map
     
2. Tool: Fix Geometries
   
3. Tool: Dissolve

Step 5

Create a layout and export your map.