Student Portfolios from Spatial Modeling Class, Fall 2017

We had some great examples of portfolios made in our Spatial Modeling class! Austin B. – https://austinbingham.wordpress.com/ Jared B. – https://brantleyportfolio.wordpress.com/projects/ Byron C. – https://byronclayton.wordpress.com/ Shauna E. – https://shaunaewald.wordpress.com/ Joseph F. – https://josephfischer91.wordpress.com/ Joshua G. – https://joshgasser.wordpress.com/gis/ Haley H. — haleyhampstead.wordpress.com  Ross H. – https://rhattel.wordpress.com/ Todd J. – http://jacobusgeospatial.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ Jen M. – https://gisjen.wordpress.com  

Web Mapping Projects from Fall 2017

In the fall of 2017, we introduced a web mapping class at MSU Denver. For a final project, each student had to create a webmap using the Leaflet.js library and include some specific types of interaction. Below are the projects that the students created. Check it out! Ally A. – Bus Routes Around Denver - …

Slides from Denver Geospatial Amateurs’ talk, August 11, 2015: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and the Earthquake in Nepal: Data Quality and the Crowd

Having moved to Denver almost exactly a year ago, I’ve really grown to love the GIS community here. It’s a group of bright, funny, innovative folks from all fields – academia, industry, the government, startups, oil, urban planning, and humanitarian aid. If you live near Denver, be sure to check out the monthly Geospatial Amateurs…

Classifying Twitter Users with the Activity-Context Geography Model

I’ll be presenting a paper cowritten with my advisor, Dr. Yongmei Lu, at the International Conference on Location-Based Social Media in Athens, GA on March 13, 2015. The paper is titled “Classifying Twiter Users with the Activity-Context-Geography Model.” Below is the abstract: This paper reports on an examination of Twitter contributor data using the Activity-Context-Geography…