Last week Grant McKenzie presented a talk entitled “A machine learning approach to identifying urban neighborhood names” at the Montreal Machine Learning Group meetup in downtown Montreal. Check out the video below.
Another American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting has come to a close, this time in Washington, D.C. By all accounts the meeting was a success and it is always great to catch up with spatial scientists in their natural habitat.
Microsoft just recently published their Building Footprints dataset for Canada. A quick analysis of the coverage for the Island of Montreal shows that there are considerable differences…
A big thank you to everyone that showed up to my (Grant’s) ThinkSpatial talk this week at UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Spatial Studies.
The 7th Conference on Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada (SKI-Canada) just wrapped up in beautiful Banff, Alberta.
The recent increase in user-generated content and social media adoption in developing countries offers an unprecedented opportunity to better understand the accessibility and spatial distribution of financial services in sub-Saharan Africa.
Grant will be giving a talk titled “Platial Dynamics: Activity exploration through digital exhaust” at McGill’s Center for Population Dynamics on February 6th.
The Platial Analysis Lab is currently accepting applications for funded graduate research from motivated students at the Masters and PhD levels.
GIS Day is on Wednesday, November 14th this year and McGill will be hosting a number of GIS day events in the Geographic Information Center (Burnside 5th floor).