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 […]
Exciting Course Work in Geography 4GT3
Posted 8 years ago
As an ECCE, McMaster University offers a long list of great GIS courses. This year I am enrolled in the Special Topics in GIS course. I have been looking forward to taking this course since second year mostly because of the exciting content that it covers related to topics such as mobile and web GIS, […]
Interactive web app: Beer-Me
Posted 8 years ago
I’m currently enrolled in a fourth year course at McMaster called “Special Topics in GIS”. A recent class assignment we had was to create a mobile web application using the Web AppBuilder with ArcGIS Online. Together with my group member, Michael Kirchin, we created an app called Beer-Me, which allows users to find the nearest […]
My Experience at the Esri Canada User Conference – Toronto
Posted 8 years ago
Yesterday I attended the Esri Canada User Conference held at The Toronto Congress Centre. The first event was the plenary session where attendees sat and listened to demonstrations of various functionalities within Esri software. These demonstrations were very interesting – one of them showed how to make an app that users could report coyote sightings, […]
Introduction – Matt Brown
Posted 8 years ago
Hello everyone, My name is Matt Brown. I am a fourth year student at McMaster University. I am majoring in environmental science, and I am also pursuing a minor degree in GIS. Right now, I am working on an undergraduate thesis that examines the robustness of transportation networks in Hamilton, Ontario. I am also learning […]
