by Nick | Jan 20, 2016 | Teaching
I’m the instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS. This video is used in the first course to help students understand that GIS data is a representation of the real world, but that we lose information in that translation. In it, I draw on a tablet to...
by Nick | Jan 10, 2016 | Teaching
I’m the instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS. This video is one of the introductory videos to explain what GIS is and what it can do, helping everyone get on the same page before teaching the core skills and knowledge. See the rest of the course...
by Nick | Jan 9, 2016 | Teaching
I’m the instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS. This video is used in the first course to provide the general concept of GIS to students. See the rest of the course – Fundamentals of GIS.
by Nick | Nov 30, 2015 | Maps
For this project, I guided a first time web mapper in how to present the data visually and how to implement that presentation in code. The map uses Leaflet and D3 to provide interactive visualization of California economic data on agriculture at multiple spatial...
by Nick | Apr 30, 2014 | Talks and Presentations
In this presentation, given at “Groundtruths and Airwaves”, an event put on by the UC Berkeley Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), I talk about some of the work we had been doing at the Center for Watershed...
