I was particularly struck by the fact that this award could have easily gone to a poet, philosopher, or physicist, but instead went to...

Here’s a cool one from years back – it is a video I made in 2009.  I was doing some work on pipelines, and we were interested in...

I recently downloaded the entire Open Street Map for the United States.  That’s an 8GB download, but more importantly, it is a 140GB...

Well folks, it’s happening. I’m about to take one of my most adventurist steps into these training classes yet. With the release of...

When you were in Statistics 101, and the Professor said ok, we are now going to learn about the Central Limit Theorem, did you tune out?...

My students had a great time presenting the tools they created in my GIS Programming class.  I want to thank our friends from Esri for...

I want to invite you to join the Salisbury University Geography students as they present their final GIS programming projects, Monday...

Continuing my series on big data geoanalytics, I wanted to show how to bring in large data sets so that we can start working with them....

In my last video, I gave a short of mile-high view of how SQL can be used for big data geoanalytics.  I want to dive a little deeper, and...

I’m getting ready to create a course in big data analytics with GIS.  I have lots of ideas as to what to do, but one thing I know is that...

Click to see the online map You’ve heard about how good my undergraduate GIS students are here, here, and here.  Oh yeah, and here and...

I have had a great time giving live workshops – each one has been sold out, the the reviews have been fantastic (see here and here) As...

Here is yet another blog post  from the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative about my students presenting their GIS work to...

I think this class has set a standard for quality professional development that will be hard to beat in the future. – Mara Kaminowitz,...

How do you manage your spatial data?  Just looking to see what kind of consensus there is out there – please pass this along <a...

if you want to learn more about writing SQL queries in SQL Server, Radian, or Postgres, check out the training classes at...

Recently my students and I wrote a paper on geocoding with different Python tools here. While that was really fun, it does take a bit of...

Also, for a limited time, you can get my online version of the course for $30 here.  That’s 12 hours of lectures, explanations, and...

Someone just retweeted my presentation from Scotland last Fall.  I spoke on creating a QGIS plug-in for parallel processing and terrain...

She also has an innate ability to work with GIS, and pick up new things: one day she has never programmed in Python, and the next day,...