1. Boulder Teen Science Café: Leave No (Digital) Trace

   Thu 24 September 2015

   cfarmer

   

   I am very excited to announce that I will be giving a talk at the Boulder Teen Science Cafe next Tuesday September 29th from 5:30-7pm at the CU Museum of Natural History‘s BioLounge. My talk is entitled “Leave No (Digital) Trace: The Geography of Social Media”, and here is the ‘snippet’ from the website announcing my talk:

   Our first Teen Café of the 2015-16 academic year features self-described “Geo Nerd” Dr. Carson Farmer, assistant professor in the CU Geography Department. When the average person thinks about geography, they might imagine a weathered, old map or a globe. When ...

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2. ESRI and Open Source

   Wed 12 March 2014

   cfarmer

   

   Here’s a blog post from ESRI about ESRI’s transition to open source, open development, and social coding.* It features GitHub pretty prominently, which continues to be an awesome resource for collaborative work — and not just for code. My colleagues and I have started using it for planning meetings and workshops, developing research papers, maintaining websites (this site is hosted on GitHub), and yes, even open source software projects. ESRI obviously also thinks GitHub is a useful resource, and their keynote for the ESRI DevSummit is GitHub CEO and Co-Founder Chris Wanstrath!

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3. R featured in New York Times

   Wed 28 January 2009

   cfarmer

   I’m sure everyone has seen this already, but I’m going to post it anyway, as I think the more exposure open-source tools get, the better off we’ll all be!

   Check out this New York Times article which features R, the open-source statistical programming language. R now has quite an extensive range of spatial analysis options, and is the software of choice for researchers using spatial statistics and geographic information analysis.

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