Category: Geohipsters
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Trisalyn Nelson: “The biggest challenge is working to ensure the data are representative”
Trisalyn Nelson joined the Department of Geography at UCSB as Jack and Laura Dangermond Endowed Chair of Geography in 2020. From 2016-2020 she was Director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. Prior, she was the Lansdowne Research Professor and Director of the Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research Lab…
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Rebekah Jones to GeoHipster: “We work at the cross-section of Earth and people”
Rebekah Jones’ unlikely notoriety as a coronavirus whistleblower stemmed from her ground-breaking work as the GIS Manager at the Florida Department of Health, where she led data and surveillance during the global pandemic. Her work became the standard for states nation-wide. In May 2020, when asked to manipulate data in support of a premature plan…
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Ayodele Odubela to GeoHipster: “Frame your work as if the data was about your friends and family.”
Ayodele Odubela is Founder and CEO of FullyConnected, a platform for reducing the barrier to entry for Black professionals in ML/AI. She earned her Master’s degree in Data Science after transitioning to tech from digital marketing. She’s created algorithms that predict consumer segment movement, goals in hockey, and the location of firearms using radio frequency…
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Steven Romalewski to GeoHipster: “If our maps help shape the coverage, I’m thrilled”
Steven Romalewski directs the Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of NY (CUNY). The Mapping Service engages with foundations, agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and CUNY researchers to use spatial analysis techniques in applied research projects. They specialize in online applications providing intuitive access to powerful data…
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Once again, we celebrate #PostGIS Day with the newest GeoHipster Calendar
Well, we did it again, folks. And by “we”, that’s our community – geohipsters, cartographers, “holiday” voters, and a team of judges came together to produce our best calendar yet for the 2021 edition. Sure, we say that every year…but this year we can also say it’s our biggest calendar, with FOURTEEN maps! The collage…
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Jennifer Maravillas: “Finding orientation in a place through movements of my hand gives me a feeling of empathy and wonder at the world. “
Born, 1983 Salt Lake City, UT. Resides in Brooklyn, NY. Jennifer Maravillas is a Brooklyn based visual artist. She creates portraits of our land in media ranging from found paper to watercolor. Her aim in this work is to capture universalities and connections across disparate communities by studying social structures from histories, landscapes, and visual…
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Morgan Herlocker to GeoHipster: “Look for similar work with a different label”
Morgan Herlocker is an open source software developer and creator of the Turf distributed geospatial analysis framework. He has worked on mapping and statistics software across the geo industry, from consumer navigation to citizen counter-surveillance. Morgan has been a vocal advocate for user privacy in the design of location telemetry systems. Morgan was interviewed for…
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Maps and mappers of the 2020 calendar: Daniel Fourquet, July
Q: Tell us about yourself A: For most of my life I have been fascinated with maps, both studying them and making them myself. As a child I would fill folders with detailed maps of an imaginary country and would spend too many hours playing games like SimCity and Civilization on the computer (ok, I…
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Maps and mappers of the 2020 GeoHipster calendar: Megan Gall, June
Q: Tell us about yourself. A: I started my career as a shovelbum, digging holes and mapping Fort Ancient Indian villages in West Virginia. We used survey equipment to inform the hand drawn maps, but one day I went into the office and someone had turned my hand drawn map into an image on…
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Mike Dolbow: “I haven’t always succeeded, but I’ve always been satisfied with the pursuit”
Mike Dolbow is a GIS Coordinator at a small state agency and your classic Jack of All Trades (Master of None). Mike was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into GIS? Would you do it all over again given the chance? A: Like a decent percentage of my peers, I…
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Nate Wessel to GeoHipster: “I want to get stuck doing something”
Nate Wessel is an urban planner and cartographer living in Toronto. He spent much of his life so far in Ohio and enjoys cycling, walking, mapping things, and playing with his cat. Check out his website https://natewessel.com/ for more info. Nate was interviewed for GeoHipster by Natasha Pirani. Q: Hi Nate! How did you become…
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Sahana Murthy to GeoHipster: “GIS is a very large umbrella, brimming with opportunities”
Sahana Murthy is the General Manager of Loveland Technologies, where she manages the team, the product, and the overall corporate & marketing strategy. Prior to Loveland, Sahana had extensive experience working with software companies and startups of all sizes across USA & India. Over the years, she has worn multiple hats with roles ranging from…