Competing in the Esri Global Content Challenge
Posted 8 years ago
This year, as part of a course project in McMaster’s Special Topics in GIS class, I completed and submitted an Esri story map journal to the Esri Global Content Challenge. When my professor Pat DeLuca announced that our class would be competing in this competition is was I was excited to design my own story […]
Hello From a New Student Associate
Posted 8 years ago
My name is Mark Bennett and I am happy to call Dalhousie University home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. My background is in Biology and I hope to pursue a graduate degree in Epidemiology. My interests lay under the broad umbrella of environmental health, where both ‘environment’ and ‘health’ maintain a wide range of definitions extending […]
Congratulations to the Canadian winners of Esri’s Global Content Challenge
Posted 8 years ago
For the past few years, Esri has challenged ArcGIS users and developers to create something great, from a “100 Lines or Less” app to Climate Resilience and Human Health and Climate Change apps, to a Data Visualization app. This year, Esri launched the Global Content Challenge (GCC) for students at colleges and universities around the […]
Season’s Greetings and Hello!
Posted 8 years ago
Hello to everyone! My name is Rafael and I’ve recently been accepted into the ECCE program (Yippee!). I’m currently in my 3rd year at Carleton, where I’m studying Geomatics with some Human Geography on the side. Prior to attending Carleton I had the pleasure of participating in Algonquin College’s GIS program, where I first immersed […]
Who am I?
Posted 8 years ago
Hey everyone, my name is Danielle and I am new to the ECCE program (just recently accepted). I currently go to Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) and am in my fourth year, hoping to pursue a Master’s degree in marine conservation and ecology. I found GIS in my second year, and have been involved in it […]
Analyzing Bike Share (Sobi Hamilton) Cyclists’ Route Choice Behavior – Part A
Posted 8 years ago
My name is Wei Lu, a 2nd year Master student in Geography at McMaster University. My research is to explore the efficiency of cyclists’ routes with the help of Dr. Ron Dalumpines and my supervisor Dr. Darren Scott. A bike share program named Social Bicycles Hamilton (SoBi Hamilton) provides all the global positioning system (GPS) data […]
Why GIS and Computer Science Should Integrate Together?
Posted 8 years ago
McMaster University hosted GIS Day (Nov. 18th – even though the official day was two days before) and we had presentations from a variety of applied disciplines and workshops. I presented the development side of GIS including last year’s ECCE App Challenge by ESRI. For this, I’m going to talk about the presentation, especially the […]
Special Topics in GIS
Posted 8 years ago
As first semester wraps up, Ii have time to reflect on all the the exciting GIS projects I have had the opportunity to work on this term. Through my 4GT3: Special Topics in GIS Course, I had the opportunity to explore analytical techniques and GIS applications that fall outside the domains of standard course projects. […]
Useful Tools for Making Maps with ArcGIS
Posted 8 years ago
As a student associate with the ECCE at SFU, I was allowed to take two free ESRI Canada instructor-led courses. One of these courses was Designing Maps with ArcGIS. I personally think that I have a pretty solid foundation but ArcGIS but I enrolled in this class with the hope that it would teach me […]
Story Map – Exploring Crime in Canada’s Most Populous City
Posted 8 years ago
Hello again everyone! I hope everyone’s November hasn’t been too stressful. In this post, I’d like to discuss a recent story map I made. In my current GIS course, our final assignment was due a week ago. Our instructor decided to make our final project something that could have tangible rewards beyond the classroom. Each […]
