ECCE App Challenge 2018 – My Experience + Tips for Success
Posted 6 years ago
A few months have passed since the 2018 ECCE App Challenge was underway. Having now completed two App Challenges, I want to share my experience to tell you about what it’s like and also share some useful tips I learned along the way. For those who don’t know, the ECCE App Challenge is a week-long […]
Spatial statistical analysis of African conflicts
Posted 6 years ago
Spatial statistical analysis of African conflicts What trends can we uncover given the traits of actors, such as nations, and information on a phenomenon of interest, such as violent conflict? What methods can be used to establish relationships between a study phenomenon and variables that can potentially be used to explain such trends? Are the […]
ECCE App Challenge – DayCare Finder
Posted 6 years ago
The ECCE App Challenge is a coding competition held by Esri Canada to help promote innovation and creativity within the Centres of Excellence. Apps powered by GIS technology and open data are created to help address a problem related to a specific theme which changes every year. Being my first year participating in the challenge, […]
ECCE App Challenge 2018 – Helping Hands Toronto
Posted 6 years ago
The Esri Canada App Challenge is a week-long hackathon-type coding competition with the goal of creating a web application to solve problems based on a specific theme, built on Esri technology and using open data. It involves creating an operational app, submitting its source code, creating supporting documentation, and a video sales pitch. This was […]
ECCE App Challenge 2018 – Marauders mApp
Posted 6 years ago
This year I participated in the ECCE App Challenge with my group members, Tasos Dardas and Matt Brown. The assigned topic of the app was anything of our choice, so we decided to focus on decentralized, renewable energy. Our app, Energy Revolution, demonstrates the feasibility of decentralized energy systems (DESs) by creating matrices showing the […]
Motor Vehicle-Cyclist Collisions in the City of Toronto
Posted 6 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 6 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, […]
Esri DevSummit 2018 – My Experience Learning to Code in California
Posted 6 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 […]
Scripting multi-criteria decision analysis
Posted 6 years ago
Background My first foray into GIS above the introductory level was a raster-based course instructed by Patrick Deluca here at McMaster University. Among the work assigned for the course was a final project focused around multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), a process described by Voogd as to ‘investigate a number of choice possibilities in the light […]
Land Flooding Tool for ArcMap generated using Python
Posted 6 years ago
This year I enrolled into GEOG 4GS3: GIS Programming offered at McMaster University. The course offers advanced treatment of GIS focusing on the creation of scripts to enhance productivity by automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks. Some of the learning outcomes include understanding the fundamental components of the Python language, developing Python scripts, working with the […]
