by Nick | Sep 1, 2017 | Maps
After Hurricane Harvey hit, the Natural Hazards Research Group wanted to assess the extent of the flooding as it related to mapped floodplains, as part of ongoing research into flood insurance and hazard mitigation nationwide to inform the National Flood Insurance...
by Nick | Feb 2, 2017 | Code
I write a lot of spatial data analysis code using ArcGIS’s Python package, arcpy. Sometimes we need to automate map generation as part of that work, but with the split of the arcpy.mapping library between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro, developers had to target two...
by Nick | Jan 14, 2017 | Maps, Projects, Teaching
I receive a number of requests for additional instruction from former students who have taken one class or another. I decided to combine my tutorials for water and ecosystem analysis in ArcGIS into a single book on LeanPub, which allows for work in progress...
by Nick | Jan 14, 2017 | Projects, Technical
In December 2016, after the Trump administration was elected, but before they took office, I helped start a group of volunteers working to protect climate data from deletion or tampering under the Trump Administration. While it seemed impossible to think they could...
by Nick | Dec 30, 2016 | Maps
I led a team of people using FEMA’s Hazus-MH (Multi-Hazard) software to model flood risk to 2 dozen Illinois communities as part of a larger project to measure perceived vs actual risk of flood in those communities. Hazus can be finicky software, so we tried...
