Next Friday, Feb 10 5-6pm, we will be having our second workshop of the Spring semester, also a mapping workshop. We will go over a few geoprocessing tools in QGIS. Here is a brief description of the workshop and link to register:

Title: Setting your spatial stage: geoprocessing tools with QGIS

Description: This workshop is…[Read more]

Coming here to announce our first workshop of the semester.

3D Models of Canyons, Lakes  and Rivers!

Join us Friday, February 3rd, 5.00 – 6.30pm, as we dive into an exciting RStudio workshop using the Rayshader package!

Tyler Morgan Wall’s Rayshader & Rayrender packages for R allow you to create 3D models of both statistical…[Read more]

As we prepare to begin our biweekly meetings for the Mapping User Group during the spring semester, I would like to get your feedback on what times would be best for us to meet, and what topics we should cover. I believe over the past semester and on DRI, we had attendance from a few people that have ongoing mapping projects, so I…[Read more]

The Mapping User Group will resume our biweekly meetings by next week. Our first meeting will be on Thursday Oct 6th, from 4-5pm. Here is the link for our sign-up form: https://forms.gle/Q1rcXrDqpnEbEBPy5

We would appreciate if everyone could sign up on that list, so we can keep track of how many people are expected…[Read more]

During this summer, the GIS / Mapping User Group will be hosting a remote GIS bootcamp, with weekly meetings on Friday (4-5pm, right after out RUG meeting), from July 15 to August 19. Our goal will be to cover from the basics concepts of GIS and move to more advanced skills we can develop using the software QGIS…[Read more]

Here is a sign-up sheet for the summer meetings of our group. So far, the topics are open, but we are working on organizing a schedule with topics for us to work throughout the summer.

https://forms.gle/jgJfrgUhcBKdeXZ89

I created a Slack workspace for our group, for those interested in communicating over there. The main goal will be to communicate about future meetings and share information. Most important information will also be placed here.

Here is the…[Read more]

I would like to organize with you all the possibility of continuing our GIS Group meetings over the summer. I modified the original form with additional questions on what would be the best way to have meetings during the sumer. If you are interested in joining us, fill out the form (link below). I will be sending a when2meet…[Read more]

Just coming here to let you all know about this new event I just heard about. It seems really interesting for people wanting to dive more into the GIS world using R. I personally just found about this group (through Connor, former GCDF) and am planning to join their events more times.

Here is the link for the event (you can…[Read more]

During Spring 2022, the GIS/Mapping User Group will be having biweekly meetings on Friday from 4-5pm. I send below a link with the dates for this semester, so you can sign up for any of next sessions. We will be chatting and discussing about GIS related questions and projects (including help with…[Read more]

Event 1

What: GIS Open House

When: Nov 15, 2-3:30pm

Where: Online Synchronous Session on Zoom

Details: this event is dedicated to bring together people through the CUNY community working with GIS related resources available to the GC community. Through the talks, you will learn about what kinds of tools,…[Read more]

Coming here to share this event happening in the College of State Island for GIS Day. Some interesting talks will be happening on Nov 17 and 18, from 6pm!

More info:

https://www.csitechincubator.com/gisday2021

Click through to get to the ‘explore’ page.  This does not appear to be in Tableau, but the various filtering options are familar.

http://www.poppyfield.org/

It goes into more detail than I have previously seen

A friend sent this over – Digital Policy Analyst position at the NYPL and I thought I would pass along. The biggest downside is that it is a “temporary” scab (non-union) position.

The Digital Policy Analyst position will support the Digital team’s strategy of digital transformation by helping the Library understand:

• how t…

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Opens today!! At the Museum of the City of New York, and looks amazing!!

https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/who-we-are

There’s a talk by Giorgia Lupi on Feb 13th on Data Humanism – not only is it a great topic, but she is a great speaker!

Hope to see you there!

A know many of you were interested in learning web technologies over your break.  When I was first learning web development, this was my best friend: https://www.freecodecamp.org/. The tutorials will run your code and check correctness for you. The lessons progress in bite sized increments.

This is my day job, so I know these well.…[Read more]

If anyone else is using scrapy and has questions/issues, I’m…[Read more]

A friend of mine works at the Trace and just let me know that they’ve published this AMAZING dataset. It’s a bit overwhelming at first blush, but if you are interested in working on gun violence in the US, I’d be delighted to help you navigate it.

https://www.thetrace.org/violent-crime-data/

Re:article – I never use location services, but when that article came out I used it to make the argument to all of my friends about why they shouldn’t grant location access to their apps.

For everyone: if you are a google maps user with location services turned…[Read more]

Christofer – I agree with Paula that the monochromatic palette works really nicely.

Paula – I never would have thought to document tourist selfies. So clever! I like your use of icons in your bar charts as well

Annalisa – Thank you for making me even more paranoid than I already was. I am really inspired by…[Read more]

Here’s my “What can the cops learn about me from my phone?” post.

Excited to see yours.

Shay, I think you definitely need to share!! 😀

Annalisa

Christofer, I enjoyed your viz – loved the single color story and the photo of your dad as a boy.

Here is a link to my blog post.  My viz has two tabs in the story and i’m not sure why the default starts on the 2nd tab.  So if you pop over there, click on the ‘intro’ tab then back to the ‘o…[Read more]

Thank you for your interest in my, and everyone’s, recent data viz blog post. I wanted to walk around and look at everyone’s after our group’s critiques, but they were already being taken down. I have attached the blog page of my data viz website here. Also, I have placed a static image of my data viz below because I don’t like how it is…[Read more]

If you don’t know what you’re going to do for your final project, you might find some inspiration here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8…[Read more]