ESRI just added Business Analyst and Community Analyst to Bucknell's site license. What that means for you is that you will soon have access to several thousand 'ready-to-map' data variables - all within ArcMap. You'll also be able to use tools from the Business Analyst extension to do site selection, customer profiling, market penetration and other types of business … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – DevelopmentSeed
Back in October I mentioned that developing GIS technical skills can help you land a job after graduation. Well, here's the proof. Recent Bucknell grad Chad Lawlis, Environmental Studies ’11, just got hired as the Mapping & Data intern for Development Seed, a Washington D.C.-based consulting/R&D company known for its innovative, open-source solutions for data … [Read more...]
Bucknell HGIS presentation at Yale
Over the last two and a half years, Bucknell History professor David Del Testa has been working - on his own and in collaboration with me and the GIS Student Assistants - on integrating GIS into his research on historical protest events in Vietnam. Last October, Prof. Del Testa presented preliminary results from this work at UC Berkeley's Center for Southeast Asia Studies. … [Read more...]
Mapping Santa vs. Satan – Round 1
Thanks to Geography Professor Duane Griffin's spooky 'Santa vs. Satan' map submission (deemed one of the 'all-time greats' - see below), Bucknell has scored a knock-out in round one of the Floatingsheep blog's Christmas map contest. The Floatingsheep blog - a favorite amongst mapping, visualization and social media enthusiasts - was founded two years ago by Dr. Matthew … [Read more...]
GIS in the classroom: Women’s Studies 233 – Sample Project ‘Mapping sexual content in advertising’
Guest post by Juanita Jeffrey, Economics/Women & Gender Studies, '13 The map below was produced by the Women in the Media group for Prof. Nikki Taylor's "Global Feminism & Religion" class. Our semester long research project was a transnational examination of women in the media represented in sexually exploitive advertising. Our focus countries (Brazil, United … [Read more...]