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The High Cost of Education? How one student did it with the GI Bill
Today I want to introduce you to one of my students: Patrick S. As you will read below, Pat came to Salisbury University as part of the...
artlembo
Dec 1, 20143 min read
The High Cost of Education? Making the most of your experience
In the next couple of weeks I will be introducing you to some of my student friends who got the most out of their education, even though...
artlembo
Nov 28, 20145 min read


The High Cost of Education?
These stories always focus on the extreme cases – the $60,000 a year education. But, there are other options. I was a product of the...
artlembo
Nov 26, 20143 min read


Workbook for Statistical Problem Solving in Geography
My workbook for Statistical Problem Solving in Geography (ISBN-10: 1502982293, ISBN-13: 978-1502982292) is now available for purchase...
artlembo
Nov 8, 20142 min read


Spatial is Not Special – Quadrat Analysis
In our book we illustrated the use of quadrat analysis for determining whether points were random, clustered, or distributed. Figure...
artlembo
Jun 8, 20142 min read
Spatial is Not Special – Nearest Neighbor Continued
The last post illustrated how to create a Nearest Neighbor Index (NNI) for a set of points using SQL. However, make any inferential...
artlembo
Jun 2, 20142 min read


Spatial is Not Special – Nearest Neighbor Index
It is nice to get back to the book, and start talking about Statistical Problem Solving in Geography again. Today we are going to look...
artlembo
May 30, 20142 min read


ARC/INFO Functions in SQL – Line Density
Dale posted a request to see Line Density recreated in SQL. Please take a look at the ESRI help topic for line density. I will warn you,...
artlembo
May 28, 20142 min read
ARC/INFO Functions – Symmetrical Difference
I was recently asked by danb to illustrate the ARC/INFO function symmetrical difference. We basically want to find those areas in layer A...
artlembo
May 26, 20141 min read
ARC/INFO Functions – UNION
We are going to conclude our overlay posts with the ARC/INFO UNION command. This should be a lot easier than it actually is. I think...
artlembo
May 23, 20142 min read
On a personal note
The masthead says “no opinions – just code”, but I have to give one quick opinion of my daughter: she graduates college tomorrow and I am...
artlembo
May 21, 20141 min read


ARC/INFO Functions in SQL – IDENTITY
The ARC/INFO IDENTITY operation seen here is sometimes confusing because it takes ALL of the Input feature, and the part of the IDENTITY...
artlembo
May 20, 20142 min read
ARC/INFO Functions in SQL – INTERSECT
I promised you that I would address the attributes. Remember, our previous query only performed the ClipSubract for the geometries, and...
artlembo
May 19, 20142 min read
What ARC/INFO Commands would you like to see in SQL?
Over the next week I am going to illustrate how to create the ESRI ARC/INFO commands of ERASE, INTERSECT, IDENTITY, and UNION (for you...
artlembo
May 16, 20141 min read


ARC/INFO Functions in SQL – ERASE, INTERSECT, IDENTITY, UNION
Today we are beginning another four-part session on the classical ESRI topological overlay functions of Erase, Intersect, Identity, and...
artlembo
May 16, 20142 min read


Spatial is Not Special – Spatial Interaction completion
We’ve spent some time looking at how to create spatial interaction models using PIVOT tables and spatial constructs in SQL. The one last...
artlembo
May 14, 20141 min read


Spatial Interaction (adjacency)
We recently looked at spatial interaction in the form of inverse distance weighting. However, some spatial interaction matrices are...
artlembo
May 12, 20141 min read


Spatial is Not Special – Spatial Interaction (inverse distance)
Today I am cheating a little. In the last post, we created a symmetrical distance matrix using strict distances between 6 cities. I...
artlembo
May 8, 20141 min read


Some work from my lab
Today I am at #delmarvagis. One of my other hats at Salisbury University is that of the Technical Director of the Eastern Shore Regional...
artlembo
May 8, 20141 min read


Spatial is Not Special – Spatial interaction
In my book Introduction to Statistical Problem Solving in Geography, we talk about relationships among geographic objects. These...
artlembo
May 6, 20142 min read
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