CGIS Knafel, room K262 (Bowie-Vernon room) or Virtual via Zoom
Speaker
Daniel Krol, Sandstorm Community Project
Abstract
In the modern era of data collection by governments and corporations, concerns have grown over user privacy and autonomy in personal and cloud computing. One outgrowth of this concern is the "self-hosting" movement which promotes open source web applications that are made for users to install and manage themselves, ideally on their own hardware. Self-hosting is an alternative to using... Read more about Desert Atlas: Building A Self-Hosted, Collaborative, Online Map that is Easy and Private (GIS Colloquium)
CGIS South, room S050 (Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room) and virtual via Zoom
Speakers
The Spatial Data Lab Team (see full list below)
Abstract
This seminar will introduce the KNIME Analytics Platform and its Geospatial Analytics extension developed by the Spatial Data Lab (SDL) team at Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). The SDL team members will share the presentations, presenting the project's vision and demonstrating the new way of performing geospatial...
This full-day workshop offers hands on instruction on learning and applying several GIS and mapping techniques commonly used by those practicing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The workshop will include discussion and interactive exercises aimed to contextualize the usage of geography and maps for each participant's individual research or teaching interests.
CGIS South, room S030 (Lee Gathering Room) or Online via Zoom
Speaker
Dr. Jan Kinne
Abstract
ISTARI webAI is an AI-based analysis tool that can be used to retrieve and analyze company websites. WebAI is primarily used to provide a searchable, real-time view of the activities and technologies of approximately 20 million companies in Europe and North America. For this research project, the websites of tens of thousands of Ukrainian companies have been scanned monthly using webAI starting in September 2022 and analyzed in terms of their communications related to the Russian-...
CGIS South, room S050 (Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room) and virtual via Zoom
Presenter
Dr. Compton J. Tucker
Abstract
Dr. Compton Tucker will describe the marriage of commercial satellite data, machine learning with high performance computing, and field measurements, which together enabled the carbon content of ten billion semi-arid trees to be estimated with an uncertainty of ±20% over an area of 10 million km2. Dr Tucker found that his team's results differ from all previous studies using observations, and from numerical simulation models. The voluminous output data required the...
While Dataverse supports file uploads through its standard web interface, there are a variety of big data use cases where the Dataverse API and tools that use it can simplify the upload process. DVUploader, a Java command-line tool, and DVWebloader, a plug-in for Dataverse, are two tools that can handle larger files and larger numbers of files, upload files from a whole folder tree (retaining the folder paths in Dataverse), and/or only upload new files. In this...
Presenter: Julian Gautier (The Dataverse Project, IQSS)
Come learn about how Dataverse helps researchers describe and find data. This webinar will cover how metadata fields are organized and how Dataverse features help streamline data publishing and make data more findable, accessible, and reusable.
The IQSS Dataverse Repository provides researchers with a robust data management and file handling system for sharing, managing, and preserving research datasets.
The Harvard Dataverse Repository, supported by the Dataverse software, allows the storage and sharing of research datasets, enabling efficient data management, access...
Join us for an in-depth exploration of advanced data management and the FAIR principles within the context of Dataverse repositories. This webinar goes beyond the basics, offering a comprehensive overview of how the FAIR principles - Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and...
This presentation will provide an academic overview of a comprehensive study conducted on mobility among older adults in rural Germany, together with the Charité University Hospital Berlin. The emphasis will be on the technological frameworks and analytical methodologies utilized for assessing participant mobility. Central to this research is a novel algorithm, designed by Robert, for the precise analysis of GPS data. This methodology has further applications, exemplified by its...
This workshop is offered every semester as a basic introduction to GIS. The topics covered are:
1. What is GIS, mapping, and spatial data. 2. GIS data types and file formats. 3. GIS analysis, problem solving, and case studies... Read more about Basic Intro to GIS