Bottom line: The principal investigator needs to keep in mind that a Grant Proposal is as much a marketing document as an intellectual document. You will benefit by consulting a few key individuals at an early stage in the planning of the proposal. The Sponsorâs Program Officer (PO). Regardless of the funding agency, it is advisable (and sometimes required) to contact the program officer for the purposes of introducing yourself and your work.
spatial data. Spatial data, also known as geospatial data, is information about a physical object that can be represented by numerical values in a geographic coordinate system.
This lab will introduce you to spatial data analysis using the open source GeoDa software. GeoDa. requires spatial data to be in ESRIâs shapefile format, so the first part of this lab will show you how to do. obtain spatial data for Colorado counties and join mortality attribute data to it.