1. Stephen Flood Guest Speaker

   Tue 13 May 2014

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   Please join us Wednesday, May 21st from 4:00-6:00 pm in the Hunter College Geography Conference Room (Hunter North 1004) for a talk by guest speaker Stephen Flood, who will be talking about Communicating across disciplines in the climate change sphere.

   If you can’t make it in person, there will also be a live feed available here (the feed will also be recorded, so you can view it at a later date as well).

   Topic: This seminar will leverage the work carried out in the Climate Changes Impacts and Implications for New Zealand (CCII) project to demonstrate some ...

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2. Google Summer of Code 2014

   Thu 08 May 2014

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   The decisions for Google Summer of Code 2014 have been made, and I’ll be mentoring Rahul Raja from India. He will be working on the enviroCar app UX design. Right next door, Carsten Keßler (who has already posted an annoucement) will be mentoring Tao Lin from China, who will be working on the Linked Data service provided by enviroCar.

   We are both looking forward to working with the students and with the folks at 52°North, who are also mentoring 3 more students in other projects:

   • Sensor Data Access for Rasdaman, Simona Badoiu (Romania)
   • Using the ILWIS framework for ...

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3. Playing with CitiBike Trip Histories

   Wed 07 May 2014

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   I recently attended the April 2014 #BetaNYC (#BikeNYC) @CitiBikeNYC Hacknight, and after seeing several interesting presentations on what people are doing, want to be doing, and are thinking of doing with the recently released Citi Bike Trip Histories, I was inspired. A few of us got together to ‘quickly’ and ‘easily’ hack together a Sankey diagram of the bike trip flows… Turns out this wasn’t nearly as quick and easy as we though: By the end of the evening, we were still struggling with getting D3js‘s Sankey plugin to play nicely with our data (which I was manipulating ...

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4. Free and Open Source Masterclass, Aug 2014

   Wed 30 April 2014

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   FREE AND OPEN SOURCE GIS – August 4th to 8th, 2014

   The Department of Geography at Hunter College of the City University of New York and Hunter Continuing Education are offering a five day professional course in Free and Open Source GIS from August 4th to 8th, 2014. This five day course will span the entire range of GIS data capture, management, analysis, and visualization of geographic information using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). These different elements of the GIS workflow will be discussed over the first four days and will then be applied in a final project completed on ...

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5. Two Guest Speakers

   Mon 28 April 2014

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   Please join us Wednesday, April 30th from 3:30-5:00 pm in the Hunter College Geography Conference Room (Hunter North 1004) for a talk by guest speakers JD Godchaux and Lela Prashad, and Robert Buchanan, who will be talking about Free & Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications.

   If you can’t make it in person, there will also be a live feed available here (the feed will also be recorded, so you can view it at a later date as well).

   Announcement: We are excited to announce that the department will be hosting the second Free and Open Source for ...

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6. After the Irish Famine: Population Change in Cartograms

   Fri 28 March 2014

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   In celebration of St Patrick’s day last week, I decided to dig up an old dataset from when I was living/working in Ireland on historical Irish populations by county, and have a play with D3js and cartograms. Click here to view it ‘live’. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you’ll know that I like cartograms as a useful and fun way to visualize data. The Great Famine was an important and significant event in Irish (and global) history, and cartograms provide a fun and informative way to explore the resultant population change in Ireland ...

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7. Python Resources for QGIS Users

   Tue 18 March 2014

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   There’s a discussion thread on the QGIS LinkedIn Group page about Python tutorials and resources. There were a few good suggestions, so I thought I’d share these with others. It starts with a very common question from a GIS (or any software that supports scripting) user:

   I’m a real ‘end-user’ of qgis and I want to improve my skills a little… I’ve found many python tutorials online but I don’t know which are any good. Can anyone point me to some good resources?

   The responses were useful, but not exhaustive:

   • The PyQGIS Programmer’s Guide ...

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8. Submission deadline extended!

   Sun 16 March 2014

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   Due to popular demand, the deadline for submitting talks, tutorials and posters has been extended to April 1, 2014 - no ‘foolin!’. We encourage submissions related to general scientific computing with Python, one of the two special themes for this year, or the domain-specific mini-symposia held during the conference. Take a look at a few talks from previous years, our guidelines for this year, and we look forward to reviewing submissions!

   Submit your abstracts today!

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