Why you should attend Esri’s Developers Summit (Palm Springs)?
Posted 8 years ago
Last year, two of my friends (also student associates of Esri Canada) went to the 2016 Esri’s Developers Summit. When they came back, they said to me, “You should really go to this conference next year. You’re gonna love the experience. Plus, it is even more beneficial for you since you have some development background.” […]
Spencer Elford – ECCE Student Associate at McMaster
Posted 8 years ago
Spencer Elford is one of the top student associates participating in the ECCE program at McMaster University. Recently, he submitted a winning entry in the Esri Global Content challenge. For this spotlight article, Spencer has given us an overview of his academic background and his experience as an ECCE student associate at McMaster over the […]
Making Apps That Promote Citizen Engagement with AppStudio for ArcGIS
Posted 8 years ago
In one of my recent courses I had the opportunity to create an application using AppStudio for ArcGIS as an assignment. This software allows you to create native applications (meaning apps that are created for use on specific platforms, as opposed to mobile web apps) without knowing any programming. Of course, if you have programming […]
Esri’s Global Content Challenge: Climate Change in Earth’s Polar Regions
Posted 8 years ago
This is a guest post by Kevin Yang, a student in the Honours Earth and Environmental Sciences program at McMaster University, who recently won third prize in the Ocean category of the Esri Global Content Challenge held last fall. For my global content challenge, I wanted to utilize the capabilities of ArcGIS to study a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
