by Nick | Jan 13, 2015 | Blog, Technical
Had a couple interesting problems to solve today that I thought I’d note here. One was with a Python library not getting loaded correctly, and the other with some bulk email for a client going to spam. These are as much notes for me as for anyone else, so no...
by Nick | Nov 27, 2014 | Code
ArcGIS provides powerful geoprocessing and data manipulation tools in Python, but provides no programmatic access to metadata from the language, meaning that once data is processed, information on the workflow used can’t be attached to the results. To remedy...
by Nick | Jul 14, 2014 | Technical
As part of a class where students gained extensive experience in the field, my colleague Sarah Yarnell led a team of researchers at the Center for Watershed Sciences that developed a virtual field trip as a pre-field trip teaching tool, and a way to expose the public...
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...
by Nick | Feb 20, 2014 | Code, Technical
As part of the organization I started, Environmental Consumer, I built an application to help individuals reduce their time in the shower as part of a hackathon in early 2014. Designed specifically for mobile devices, the application lets you start and stop a timer,...
