Let's Drone a Map

Step by step guide to complete your first drone mapping project is exactly what it says - give it a try!

The Two Americas of 2016

The Two Americas of 2016 shows some pretty stark numbers and patterns. Here's One America:

Web Literacy for Students (and Everybody)

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers is a great OER 'textbook' on - well - how to be a responsible consumer of web information.

• Read it here as a web book.
• Or, find it here  or here in various formats (including PDF)

2016: One of the warmest two years on record

Climate Change Board Games

Okay, I admit: I'm a little skeptical when it comes to the use of games or role-playing in science education. Still, Game changers (Science, 10 February 2017) reviews two new board games that could be useful:

• Evolution: Climate
• Catan Scenarios: Oil Springs

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

The book Global Land Ice Measurements from Space is now available for free download - nice!

ChartAccent

ChartAccent is very cool: simply upload your data as a CSV file, chart it, annotate it, and  export it - even as an animated GIF. Here's an example:

R and Tableau

Now that's being being hip: Using R and Tableau

R for Excel Users

Scared about making the leap? R for Excel Users might help!

The World's Largest Solar Plant

Here is a nice image comparison by NASA showing the expansion of the Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in China using a Landsat 8 image from 2013 and 2017.

Regression Analysis: R2

This is nice and simple: Regression Analysis: How Do I Interpret R-squared and Assess the Goodness-of-Fit?

How to Spot Visualization Lies

Excellent post by Nathan Yau: How to Spot Visualization Lies

Cmap Tools

Cmap Tools have been around for a while now - they provide a nice concept map-based itinerary to get started with concept mapping. Also availble for iPad and cloud-based.

Intermediate Python

Here's a review of ArcGIS Blueprints - seems like a great choice for ArcGIS users as the next step beyond learning the basics of Pyhton.

Sea Ice Death Sprial

This is great: Global, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice area

Information Visualization

Enrico Bertini's course materials for his Information Visualization class are all available online. Thanks!

Census Reporter

Census Reporter provides easy, fast tools to search for Census data about a place along with advanced tools for mapping, charting and comparing data at the state, county, and city levels.

Data Journalism: finding the stories inside the census. from NPR Training on Vimeo.

Data Science

Here are several good resources that I stumbled across:

• Data Science with Python & R: Exploratory Data Analysis
• EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS (EDA) FOR TABLEAU
• A Complete Tutorial to Learn Data Science with Python from Scratch
• Data Science Guide

A Short History of Humans and Germs

A Short History of Humans and Germs (by Skunk Bear) is great (here's the video) - looking forward to the continuation.

• Episode 2
• Episode 3

Here's my favorite animated GIF:

Science and Coding

The article by Monya Baker Scientific computing: Code alert (Nature, 26 January 2017) is not all that interesting, but has a few interesting links:

• Initial steps toward reproducible research (by Karl Broman).
• Data organization organizing data in spreadsheets (by Karl Broman).
• Data Carpentry for Biologists