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★ 52°North seeks students for GSoC 2015
52°North has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code again. Take a look at their project ideas page if you think of applying.
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★ Dumbsmart systems
Here’s the submission system of a computer science (!) journal that thinks it is more accurate to manually type in my email address, rather than have it filled in automatically. Probably because of...
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★ The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
Very cool map by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia: This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity...
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5th Workshop on Linked Science 2014— Best Practices and the Road Ahead...
Linked Science has been accepted as a full day workshop for the International Semantic Web Conference again. This will be our 5th LISC workshop, and the theme for this year is Best Practices and the...
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★ André Skupin presenting at CUNY Graduate Center
Knowledge Visualization: From Abstract Space to Real Impact When: Friday, May 1, 2015, 12:30‐13:30 Where: Rm C415A, Concourse Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York Abstract: In...
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★ 1 week Free and Open Source GIS Training Course at Hunter College, Summer...
This time, the course will be running from June 22–26, 2015: This five day course will span the entire range of GIS data capturing, management, analysis, and visualization of geographic information...
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SPARQL Endpoint and Interoperability of enviroCar Data
I’ll be mentoring Deepak Nair over the summer through Google’s Summer of Code program. He will finally add a full-fledged Linked Open Data layer to enviroCar, including a SPARQL endpoint and automatic...
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Why we encrypt
This protection is important for everyone. It’s easy to see how encryption protects journalists, human rights defenders, and political activists in authoritarian countries. But encryption protects the...
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Deadlined Extended for Linked Science 2015
We have extended the deadline for our 5th Linked Science workshop until next Monday, July 13. ★
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★ In Search of the Longest Subway Ride
This is a pretty cool project by WNYC: They are trying to figure out what the longest ride on the NYC subway is that you can get with a single swipe. You can transfer as often as you want and visit...
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GeoPrivacy: 2nd Workshop on Privacy in Geographic Information Collection and...
I’m not co-organizing the GeoPrivacy workshop this year, but it’s great to see that Grant has brought Jano and Gueorgi on board to keep it going. Papers are due August 21st, and the workshop will be...
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CartoCamp Edu
The folks over at CartoDB have invited me to talk a bit about how I use their platform when I teach Free and Open Source GIS. Their CartoCamp Edu event will be held on August 21st at NYU. ★
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NYC PLUTO Data Downloader
CartoDB’s Chris Whong wrote this super-handy data exporter for NYC PLUTO data, the city’s land use and geographic data set. Lets you select geographic and thematic subsets of the data and either...
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
If you were always wondering how machine learning works, but didn’t dare to ask. ★
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SPARQL endpoint and interoperability of the enviroCar Linked Data – Final...
Google Summer of Code 2015 is coming to an end today. I’ve been mentoring Deepak over the summer, who built an awesome prototype to bring the enviroCar data into the LOD cloud. ★
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Hexbinning in PostGIS
Very handy tutorial for hexbinning directly in PostGIS. Short version: In QGIS, use the Create grid layer function in the MMQGIS plugin to create the hexbins. Then import this layer into PostGIS and...
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★ Which countries should be able to handle the strain in the European...
Greg and his colleagues over at the NY Times published a piece a few days ago, entitled Which Countries Are Under the Most Strain in the European Migration Crisis?. The bar charts published there had a...
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★ New publications
I’ve got some new papers coming up: Carsten Keßler (forthcoming) OpenStreetMap. In Shashi Shekhar and Hui Xiong, Encyclopedia of GIS, 2nd edition. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany (accepted). Carsten...
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★ Opportunities for PhD Students at CUNY
The Ph.D. program in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York has the following opportunities for Ph.D. students entering the Fall Semester of 2016: Up to four Graduate...
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★ Tenure Track Faculty Positions at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
The Environmental CrossRoads Initiative at The City University of New York’s Advanced Science Research Center invites applications for full-time, tenure-track faculty members at any rank. We seek...
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