Nice!

2016 Election at the the precinct level

States - Counties - and now we can explore the 2016 election results down to the precinct level with An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election by the NYT. Well-done!

Define Projection or Project?

Define Projection or Project? is a nice and concise explanation of the Define Projection and the Project tool in ArcGIS (the currency analogy is great!).

QGIS 3 Beginner's Basic Tutorial

The QGIS 3 Beginner's Basic Tutorial is a nice and quick way to get to know QGIS.

Visual Vocabulary

Visual Vocabulary is a cool interactive (created in Tableau) that connects data relationships to their most appropriate data visualizations. That's similar to the Chart-Doctor poster.

Why Earth Has Two Levels

The Wayback Machine

From Esri: Wayback imagery is a digital archive of the World Imagery basemap, enabling users to access more than 80 different versions of World Imagery captured over the past 5 years.

• Read more at Wayback - 81 Flavors of World Imagery
• The World Imagery Wayback app
• Using World Imagery Wayback

I suppose going back 5 years is useful, but a longer time frame would be better. 

Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python looks like a great book for those interested in using Python for geospatial analysis.

A Crash Course in Cyclogenesis and Conveyor Belt Theory

This is quite good: A Crash Course in Cyclogenesis and Conveyor Belt Theory.

https://www.mountwashington.org/uploads/Conveyor.jpg

Assessment of Undergraduate Research – from David Lopatto

Good stuff from Laura Guertin: Assessment of Undergraduate Research – from David Lopatto.

All the building footprints in the United States

Found on FlowingData: All the building footprints in the United States. That's 124,885,597 computer-generated building footprints created by Microsoft and available as open-source.

Now here it is mapped by the NYT: A MAP OF EVERY BUILDING IN AMERICA

FloodRisk

FloodRisk is a plugin for QGIS to quantify flood impacts and risks. Here are a few papers using FloodRisk:

• FloodRisk: a QGIS plugin for flood consequences estimation (Mancusi et al. 2015)
• FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysis (Albano et al. 2017)
• Using FloodRisk GIS freeware for uncertainty analysis of direct economic flood damages in Italy (Albano et al. 2018)

Freeman Hrabowski: 4 pillars of college success in science