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Esri COVID-19 Educator Support and Resources for online learning

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Many useful self-learning resources are embedded in this email, provided by Geri Miller | Education Sector Director | Global Business Development | Esri: Esri COVID-19 Educator Support and Resources for online learning

From classrooms to regions: the scale of inequality and educational aspirations

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CGA Brown Bag presentation by Crhistian Joel González-Cuatianquis Abstract: Educational aspirations play a central role in shaping social mobility, but the influence of contextual factors on aspiration formation remains poorly understood. This paper...

Visual programming-based Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for open-source GIS education 3.0

Journal Article

Open-ource GIS plays a pivotal role in advancing GIS education, fostering research collaboration, and supporting global sustainability by enabling the sharing of data, models, and knowledge. However, the integration of big data, deep learning methods, and...

The State of School Infrastructure in the Assembly Constituencies of Rural India: Analysis of 11 Census Indicators from Pre-Primary to Higher Education

Journal Article

In India, assembly constituencies (ACs), represented by elected officials, are the primary geopolitical units for state-level policy development. However, data on social indicators are traditionally reported and analyzed at the district level, and are...

ArcGIS Desktop Retirement in Education Programs - Affects ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro Single/Use Concurrent Use

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The date for ending delivery of ArcGIS Desktop has changed. ArcGIS Desktop will now be removed from Education Program licenses on July 1, 2024. ArcGIS Desktop enters Mature Support phase on March 1, 2024, meaning Technical Support still is available but...

Harvard Data Science Initiative Annual Conference 11/15 and 11/16

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The Harvard Data Science Initiative will be hosting its two-day, in-person Annual Conference on Tuesday, November 15 and Wednesday, November 16. The Conference will showcase data science in research and education through panels, keynotes, workshops, and...

Jacqui Schlesinger

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Jacqui is a sophomore at Harvard College studying applied math with a focus and data science. In the past, she has worked for the MA Department of Education and Department of Justice, as well as in STEM education curriculum development and teaching. She...

Advancing replicable and reproducible GIScience: an approach with KNIME

Journal Article

The reproducibility and replicability (R&R) crisis poses a significant challenge across disciplines, particularly in spatiotemporal studies. This paper focuses on the unique challenges within spatiotemporal research in the context of R&R, including data...

David Strohschein

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Sep. 2014 - Jun. 2017

Dave came to Harvard in 2014 as a GIS Fellow. He draws from a multidisciplinary background encompassing engineering, software design, systems analysis, and geo information science. He has applied this experience to such areas as...

Team CGA presents at NE GIS Facilitator Meeting

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Dr. Rachel Franklin and Devika Jain of CGA presented at NE Higher ED GIS Facilitator Meetup on " Rethinking GIScience Education in The Age of Disruptions" and " Building HPC Infrastructure for Future GIS Research and Education" respectively. The event, co...

GIS Education in India

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For a week In November of 2018 the CGA’s Jeff Blossom was in India teaching cartography and GIS workshops as part of the Out of Eden Walk project. Over a week’s time Jeff gave the following lectures and hands on workshops: Creating Maps – A 50 minute...

The Geography of Geography

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There are many definitions for geography, most contain the word space or place. In order to foresee the future of geography, let us first examine the presence of the discipline, in particular, its variation in space. This chapter illustrates the...