Motor Vehicle-Cyclist Collisions in the City of Toronto
Posted 7 years ago
With the gradual increase in environmental, economic and public health problems from the growing global community that uses motorized vehicles as their primary source of transportation, there has been a large interest in the use of bicycles as an alternative form of transportation. Despite the benefits of cycling, studies have shown that people are discouraged […]
What is GeoAI?
Posted 7 years ago
DevSummit 2018 This past early March, my fellow McMaster Student Associate, Matt Brown and I had the opportunity to attend to the 2018 Esri Developer’s Summit located in Palm Springs, California. As Matt mentioned in his recent blog, this is our second time attending, all huge thanks to the ECCE Student Associates Program. Last year, […]
2018 Esri FedGIS Conference: Student Assistantship Experience
Posted 7 years ago
Last March, I attended the 2018 Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, D.C. as part of Esri’s student assistantship program. The student assistantship program allows students passionate about GIS software or geospatial applications to help assist the Esri staff with the conference logistics, while also attending the conference with attendance fees covered. Over the span […]
Esri DevSummit 2018 – My Experience Learning to Code in California
Posted 7 years ago
At the beginning of March, I got the opportunity to attend the 2018 Esri Developer’s Summit (DevSummit for short) along with my fellow McMaster Student Associate Tasos Dardas. This conference occurs annually in sunny Palm Springs, California. This is my second time attending, thanks to the ECCE Student Associates program, which provides free registration to […]
Discover ‘Machine Learning’ – without acquiring an Engineering Degree
Posted 7 years ago
If you haven’t heard of Machine Learning or Kaggle, you’re going to want to. Allow me to introduce you to the future of GIS predictive modelling. Machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from data and make data-driven decisions. Its applications are all around you. When the advertisements you see in […]
Homicide Analysis in Metro Vancouver
Posted 7 years ago
Canada measures crime using the crime severity index: an index that measures the volume and severity of police-reported crime. Crime has dropped significantly over the last decade. However, in the past two years it has increased again. A homicide is defined, by Stats Canada as first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and infanticide [1]. Most […]
Mapping Indigenous Boundaries
Posted 7 years ago
GIS is often focused on those things that can be defined through hard lines, singular points and polygons. For me as a settler, my home can be easily defined by the boundaries of the state I am from and the edges of my house, this has been shaped by growing up with an understanding of […]
York University Attends National Geomatics Competition
Posted 7 years ago
From Left to Right: Patricia Dhup, Ario Hadian and David Recchia. After the competition, we got the chance to have some fun and enjoy a Canadian classic, Curling. It was a great pleasure to be able to represent York University alongside my kick-ass teammates, Patricia Dhup and Ario Hadian, at the first ever National Geomatics […]
ECCE App Challenge 2018 has begun
Posted 7 years ago
This year’s ECCE App Challenge has begun! This is the fourth annual iteration of this event since the challenge was first introduced by the Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence in 2015. We have seen many great apps produced each year by students using ArcGIS technology, and we anticipate to a record number of participating […]
Custom point clustering for ArcGIS JavaScript API 4.6
Posted 7 years ago
When working on custom web mapping applications that need to display many point features, there is a natural need for point clustering for both performance and to improve the visualization of the point distribution. We’ve had the ability to do this for quite some time with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript in the 3.x version. […]
