Cleaning data is your friend
Posted 4 years ago
In a perfect world, a geospatial project would be provided with data that requires no additional cleaning. You could start mapping or executing an analysis from the get-go with the initial data, saving a lot of time, energy, and brain power. The above scenario is rarely the case, as most GIS practitioners know. It is […]
Team McRaster: Looking Back on the 2021 ECCE App Challenge
Posted 4 years ago
This is a collective look back on the 2021 ECCE App Challenge, co-authored by all three members of our team. In this competition, we produced an app that presents a Neighbourhood Equity Index for the City of Toronto, and ultimately tied as first runners-up. The app we created is called Equapolis.
Assessing fish passage in Nova Scotia
Posted 4 years ago
While exploring different options for my capstone project, I was approached by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in assessing fish passage or the ease of migration for saltwater to freshwater migratory fish species in Nova Scotia.
A behind-the-scenes look at one participant’s ECCE App Challenge week.
Posted 4 years ago
Emma Sherwood, a first-time App Challenge participant, discusses her experience and contributions, and how her team worked together to create their winning ArcGIS Hub and video.
Reflecting on the 2021 ECCE App Challenge
Posted 4 years ago
Reflecting on the 2021 ECCE App Challenge as a first-timer where we mapped the problem that Indigenous Canadians continue to face accessing clean water.
Meet the Winners of the ECCE App Challenge 2021
Posted 4 years ago
Meet the winners of the ECCE App Challenge 2021!
The Equalizers App Challenge journey – from the view of a first timer
Posted 4 years ago
When my professor emailed me about being an Esri Canada Centres of Excellence Associate, I was initially very excited about the opportunity. However, upon hearing about the App Challenge, though I always think of myself as capable of anything, I honestly thought maybe he rated me a bit too highly and I wasn’t up to […]
Meet the teams of the ECCE App Challenge 2021
Posted 4 years ago
The annual ECCE App Challenge has recently completed its 7th iteration. Each year this competition provides us with the opportunity to see many new and interesting apps created and presented by teams joining from ECCE schools across the country. In this respect, the 2021 App Challenge was very similar to the previous six competitions. However, […]
Unprecedented
Posted 4 years ago
If there was one word to describe the last year and three months, or more depending on when you are reading this, it would be “unprecedented”...
Reducing Inequalities In Canada – 2021 ECCE App Challenge
Posted 4 years ago
The ECCE App Challenge for 2021 focused on the United Nations Sustainability Goal 10, Reducing Inequality. My name is Chelsea Fitzpatrick (MGIS candidate) and I am one of the ECCE student associates for the Geography Department at the University of Calgary....
