Last summer, Bucknell's administration asked our GIS team to conduct an analysis of parking availability across campus. The project was assigned to Dan Dougherty, Geography/History ’12 and is summarized in Dan's guest post here. This spring, a team of four students in Prof. Michelle Oswald's CENG 432 course, Sustainable Transportation Engineering, are picking up where Dan left … [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...]
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...]