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I didn’t know what web scraping was until last week. Now, I could probably write an entire tutorial on it. Having received no positive response from the Carleton administration regarding data, I decided to look into web scraping as a way to gather the data we needed from the Alumni Directory. I downloaded a Google… Continue reading 8th Week: My Final Project Contributions

As soon as I read the guidelines for the final project, I knew I wanted to do something in ArcGIS. I had always been fascinated by the idea of the spatial humanities and it had been a goal of mine to learn ArcGIS to a point where I felt comfortable teaching it to other people.… Continue reading My Final Project Goals

Have you ever wondered how many squirrels lived in Central Park? Now there is a map for that! Denise Lu at the New York Times Interactive joined a team of data gatherers to complete a survey of squirrels in Central Park. Using this data, I created a map on ArcGIS Online that shows where squirrels… Continue reading Digital Mapping in ArcGIS Online