Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Midland County, MI GIS and Esri’s Community Maps Program Respond to Flood Event (Esri)

In May of 2020 Midland County, Michigan received significant rainfall that led to two dam failures resulting in the drainage of Sanford and Wixom...
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Turn your world inside-out with antipodes (Esri)

John Nelson In geography, an antipode is the exact other side of the world from any given location. When I was a kid, we always used to...
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Publish and overwrite web layers in ModelBuilder (Esri)

Jonah Lay As we continue the fight against COVID-19 and enter the wildfire and hurricane season, web applications like dashboards help people make informed, time-sensitive,...
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Styling OpenStreetMap data with Arcade in ArcGIS Pro (Esri)

John Nelson This blog post is about styling and labelling data from the OpenStreetMap database in ArcGIS Pro, to produce impressive maps. The key is to understand...
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Locators: Adventure in South America (Esri)

Wes Jones The recently released Locators: Adventure in South America by Kyle Bauer, Colleen Conner, and myself, Wesley Jones, follows a group of kids as they solve...
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‘Counting Birds in the Falkland Islands’, and other Remote Sensing Fundamentals (Esri)

The task to discern different species of seabirds gets complicated when they nest in the same place. Steve Snow The Falkland Islands contain some of the...
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Visualizing How DC Waterways Have Evolved (Center for Data Innovation)

Morgan Stevens The Department of Energy and Environment in Washington, D.C. has created a series of visualizations depicting waterways in the city. The visualizations use...
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Increasing the Minimum Wage Will Help the United States Compete with China on AI (Center for Data Innovation)

Image Credit: Miso Robotics Daniel Castro There are growing calls to raise the minimum wage in the United States. While most arguments favor an increase to help workers,...
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Indonesia’s AI Promise in Perspective (CSET)

Kayla Goode, Heeu Millie Kim The United States and China are keeping an eye on Indonesia’s artificial intelligence potential given the country’s innovation-driven national strategy and...
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Climate Tech – Climate-Tech to Watch: Floating Wind Farms (ITIF)

Linh Nguyen Floating offshore wind farms should be the next big thing in the wind industry. But catalyzing greater private investment and reducing costs will...
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Climate Change/Innovation/Growth – Growth through innovation will help fight climate change (The Korea Times)

Robert D. Atkinson In the past decade a growing number of activists and pundits have argued that if we want to save the planet, particularly...
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Automation/Income Inequality – Automation Is Not to Blame for the Growth of Income Inequality (ITIF)

Robert D. Atkinson For at least four decades, wages have grown more slowly for less-educated workers than workers with more education, although the gap is...
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Hong Kong – Two Hong Kong activists convicted on security law charge (Al Jazeera)

Armed police were deployed as Andy Li and Chan Tsz-wah were brought to court Two Hong Kong activists, accused of being part of a...
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China/Canada – Extradition hearings in Canada for Huawei’s Meng come to a close (Al Jazeera)

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her Vancouver home to attend her last extradition hearing in the British Columbia Supreme Court Huawei executive...
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Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse (Al Jazeera)

The largest campaign to date over an encryption issue at a single company was organised by the US-based Center for Democracy and Technology More...
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South China Sea/USA – Harris’ Southeast Asian trip cannot roil South China Sea waters (Global Times)

Illustration: Chen Xia/GT US Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to leave Washington Friday for a planned visit to Singapore and Vietnam. According to Reuters...
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