I’ll be leading a one-hour intro to GIS, mapping, and geospatial analysis on Friday, 1/22, from 9-10 in ETC 205. Come join!
Materials from the workshop are here (Mapping_GIS_Paideia). Download the zipped file to your desktop and unzip it – open datafiles in either ArcGIS or qGIS (cross-platform and open source).
From noon-1pm on Thursday, 1/22/2015 I’ll be leading an Introduction to Stata in ETC 205. Come join us!
Materials for the workshop are here.
Download the zipped file to your desktop, unzip it, and change your working directory to that file to follow along during the workshop. (Within Stata, File > Change Working Directory)
This October, my colleague Rich and I went to the National Numeracy Network annual meeting in Northfield, MN (more on that here). During a session on teaching quantitative reasoning led by the brilliant Kate Folliette, folks shared their favorite brain teasers.
A subset of my favorites are below, and are also currently posted outside of my office (ETC 225). Think through these questions; check the links for more resources/background. (Answers at end of post)
Earlier this month, Rich and I traveled to Carleton College to join people from 23 institutions of higher education for the annual conference of the National Numeracy Network (NNN). The NNN focuses on building quantitative literacy for all citizens, with education being central to that work. The majority of attendees were from smaller liberal arts colleges – predominantly staff, with some faculty joining.
Continue reading “Quantitative reasoning and quantitative literacy (NNN 2014)”
Update: A half-dozen students joined me for a whirlwind hour of data analysis using Stata on Wednesday. Through hands-on exercises, we worked through some basic analyses and some common errors and other roadblocks. If you missed the workshop, the materials are linked below.
Continue reading “Data Analysis using Stata: Workshop, 10/8/14”
Clickers are a common piece of educational technology across college campuses, used for in-class quizzes or to allow many voices to “speak” in a class discussion. At Reed, clickers are most commonly used in the first two years of Chemistry courses, which are some of our larger classes (75 students per section in Chem 101) and bring together students from a variety of academic backgrounds. Clickers allow faculty to check student comprehension throughout class and actively engage students in a larger lecture environment.
Continue reading “Clickers in chemistry: a classic case of data munging”
I recently returned from a week of workshops, presentations, networking, and general nerdery with an incredible group of people: open source geospatial developers, users, and other spatially-focused folk from across the globe.
Continue reading “FOSS4G: Geospatial tech, community, and a bird named Helen”
Last year, Reed re-examined its smoking policy, which touched off some fairly spirited debates around campus. The revised policy is now in place, and you can see structures around campus to provide simultaneous shelter from the rain and access to ashtrays. (Catch up on what you missed here, thanks to the Reed Quest.)
One of the interesting things about this discussion is that it centered around a key spatial theme: proximity.
Continue reading “Spatial proximity and Reed’s smoking policy”
While proud families and supportive friends watched the Reed College Class of 2014 officially transition to alumni, I headed to Pasadena for the 2014 UCGIS* conference. As folks chatted at pre-conference workshops** and the opening reception, I slowly realized that Reed was the lone liberal arts college in attendance. The conference was the big schools, the big names, and … me. Continue reading “The future of GIS in education and research (UCGIS, 2014)”
As part of our spring Quantitative Research Skills Workshop Series, I held an introduction workshop for MATLAB this afternoon. The presentation was aimed at a completely näive audience — we covered some background of the program and its applications, walked through the interface, did some basic calculations, and heard from a Psychology faculty member who uses MATLAB on a regular basis as part of his neuroscience research. Some useful links, below. Continue reading “Workshop: Introduction to MATLAB”
