Last Halloween I shared an ESRI map that visualized Halloween spending across the U.S. Interesting, but nothing of any real practical value. But this year I've got links to a couple of maps and apps that could really come in handy on Monday night: 1. First up, a link to an article in the Montreal Gazette with info about four different GPS-enabled mobile apps to help you … [Read more...]
From the Yale Daily News… “Map on, Maples!”
The Yale Daily News has a great article about the role that the GIS Specialist, Stace Maples, plays on campus. Maples, a fellow ESRI T3G Institute alum from summer 2010, works with faculty and students on integrating GIS into teaching and research at Yale and... ... he is in high demand. Working in the three-person Map Department, a department within the Yale University … [Read more...]
Mapping wheel-chair access at Bucknell
In spring 2010, Bucknell student Kate Matelan, '10 worked with film professor Eric Faden to produce a documentary film focused on her experiences as a disabled student on campus. To illustrate the differences between navigating the Bucknell campus in a wheelchair vs. on foot, Kate and I developed a GoogleEarth project with placemarks and travel paths to mark and annotate both … [Read more...]
Reminder – Flying Bison & free pizza today at noon
Reminder - the Flying Bison coffee talk will be in Olin 268 at noon today. Here's the message center listing for the event: Dan Farrell '12 and Nick Urban '12 will be giving the coffee talk on Monday, September 26 at Noon in the Olin auditorium (Olin 268). The title of their talk is "The Flying Bison: A Student UAV Project." ABSTRACT: UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are … [Read more...]
Nate Silver maps college football geography
In a recent post on the New York Times' Quad blog, Nate Silver tackles the geography of college football allegiances. Silver - a noted statistician, blogger and election forecaster who is also credited with developing Major League Baseball's sabermetric system for predicting player performance - used data from Google web searches and the CommonCensus Sports Map project to map … [Read more...]