ECCE Blog – Page 21 – Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence

The Privacy Implications of Smart Cities: Developing a Web App and Interactive Survey

Posted 5 years ago

Smart cities, and smart technologies, are emerging in many local contexts across Canada. Smart city technologies have quickly moved from development to adoption, often outpacing the social and political deliberations necessary to consider their effects in detail-particularly their effects on the privacy of Canadians (Bannerman, 2018). Dr. Sara Bannerman and her research team at McMaster […]

My plan for ECCE blogging in 2020

Posted 5 years ago

By Alexander Wray in the Western Blog

Hello! I am excited to be back for another year of being a Student Associate of the Esri Canada Centre of Excellence program. I am a second-year Masters student at Western University, working with Dr. Jason Gilliland in the Department of Geography and Human Environments Analysis Lab. I have an Honours Bachelor’s of Environmental Studies […]

Data Wrangling with Python and R, Part 1: “Fun” with LiDAR Buffers

Posted 5 years ago

By Sean Leipe in the McMaster Blog

One realization that keeps hitting me throughout my MSc is how many little things need to be dealt with in order to do even basic analysis using real-world data. My supervisor once told me that about 70% of the work that gets done in our lab is what he calls “data wrangling”, which I would […]

Mapping Cultural Character

Posted 5 years ago

By Nikki Rogers in the UCalgary Blog

As a second year Masters of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) student at the University of Calgary, I have applied Esri software to a wide variety of topics and problems, often to areas not traditionally thought of as applicable to GIS. This past summer, I had the opportunity to see how GIS and sociology can come […]

Big Data and the Power of ArcGIS Pro

Posted 5 years ago

By Andrea Nesdoly in the UVic Blog

As a MSc student at the University of Victoria, the research I am conducting feeds my passions: GIS, remote sensing, and machine learning/data mining. My research involves analyzing automatic identification systems (AIS) vector data. AIS is an automated and autonomous system that allows the transmission of vessel position data and vessel identification information via VHF […]

The Esri Toronto User Conference: Day 2’s ArcGIS StoryMaps

Posted 5 years ago

By David Zaslavsky in the McMaster Blog

When I attended the second day of the Esri User’s Conference on October 9, I was excited for the day full of workshops and breakout sessions. While every session I walked away from had something that was useful, the session that I enjoyed and learned from the most was a walk-through of the updated ArcGIS […]

About Me

Posted 5 years ago

By Kendra Munn in the SFU Blog

Hi I’m Kendra and this is my second time as an ECCE student associate at SFU. My academic interests primarily revolve around GIScience, Environmental Science (the applied biology side of things), and how these two intersect to find solutions to spatially-based environmental problems. My current research focuses on how meaningful analyses can be carried out […]

Clipping a big DEM to a small shapefile and using Con to get specific depths

Posted 5 years ago

By Sherry Chen in the McMaster Blog

For my undergrad independent project, I am creating an atlas of coastal Eastern Georgian Bay with the Pat Chow-Fraser Lab at McMaster University. The atlas covers wetland information such as fish and vegetation community, water quality indices, wetland area and volume, and more. I primarily work on calculating wetland area and volume at five different […]

The McQuesten Urban Farm: A Look at Food Accessibility Using Service Areas and Origin-Destination Cost Matrices

Posted 5 years ago

By Nicole Langdon in the McMaster Blog

My final year of undergrad at McMaster University was spent studying a local landmark case in urban agriculture in Hamilton (ON)—the McQuesten Urban Farm. It was built to address the food security concerns of an east-end neighbourhood in the city and is operated by a combination of paid farmers and local volunteers. Ultimately, the goal […]

Discovering Data for the ActivScore: The Challenges of using Municipally, Provincially, and Federally Managed Data

Posted 5 years ago

By Lily Barraclough in the Dalhousie Blog

I’m currently in the midst of my undergraduate honours thesis and have been awoken to the joys of finding accurate and complete datasets. I am working to create a physical activity score for the province of Nova Scotia based on built and natural environment features. Nova Scotia is particularly challenging for this sort of analysis […]