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...]
3 global data visualization tools to use in your class
Last fall the World Bank launched a contest aimed at challenging web developers to create web-based tools using the data available through the World Bank's Open Data Initiative. Click here to read an article from Programmable Web about the contest winners (excerpt below). You can visualize nearly every indicator of economic, social and human development on StatPlanet World … [Read more...]
Physics Dept coffee talk on using the Flying Bison drone to collect aerial imagery
Come hear Nick Urban, Computer Science '12, talk about designing, building and flying the remote-controlled Flying Bison drone. Nick will be presenting on Monday, 9/26 at noon (Olin 364) as part of the Physics department's coffee talk series. He'll have the plane with him and will be showing some new video that will be captured by the drone in test flights he's conducting this … [Read more...]
Keystone Edge story about the Flying Bison
The online journal, Keystone Edge, recently picked up the story of Nick Urban and the Flying Bison drone. Published by Issue Media Group, the Keystone Edge ... tells the story of the new economy in Pennsylvania--a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play. Each Thursday, the Web site and weekly … [Read more...]
Williamsport and Lycoming County Asset Mapping
Guest post by Dan Ladd, Middlebury College ’14 One of the major projects the GIS team worked on for much of the early part of the summer was mapping community assets in Williamsport and Lycoming County. This project was requested by Professors Ben Marsh (Geography) and Carl Milofsky (Sociology). Chad Lawlis (Environmental Studies '11) and I worked on putting together the … [Read more...]