GIS analyst salaries in growing GIS field

February 21, 2021

The GIS Industry as a whole could be worth $17.5B by 2023. The Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that between 2014 to 2024…

The new ‘Spotification’ of education for learners

December 16, 2020

Here’s a cool idea.  Students will have the power to build their own technical certification from an a la carte menu.

The Skills Gap in technical education

December 15, 2020

So you got an IT degree (programming, database, cloud, or GIS).  These are marketable fields right? It depends on…

The unemployment rate impact on job seekers

December 14, 2020

As of December 2019, the United States unemployment rate was at 3.5 percent and the number of unemployed persons was at 5.8 million. A year earlier…

The critical use of GIS in wildfire mapping

August 11, 2020

The West has a new problem that people need to prepare for: wildfires. As the summer heat approaches, wildfire season begins…

Using GIS to measure climate change

August 11, 2020

In the last few months, we’ve seen maps describing prominent news issues with Coronavirus updates, and the surging Black Lives Matter movement.

Quick maps via scraping social media data

August 11, 2020

Protesting is as American as it can possibly be, we’ve seen pictures of protests in our history books ever since we first started school.

Student opinions of higher education

July 31, 2020

In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, college students across the country have expressed their dissatisfaction with the quality of online…

COVID-19 and contact tracing

July 22, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing has become an important tool which many countries have adopted in hopes of controlling the spread…

GIS measures pollution before and after COVID

July 11, 2020

During the height of Coronavirus news coverage there was a constant sense of negativity. But there have been upsides with signs that the Earth was healing…