IJGIS GeoAI Editorial Webinar
Professor McKenzie will join coauthors to present their editorial GeoAI: spatially explicit artificial intelligence techniques for geographic knowledge discovery and beyond…
New CIRA funding for Location Privacy Educational Platform
We are happy to share that our research proposal to build a Location Privacy Educational Platform was selected for funding by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority…
Spatial Data Science Symposium
The 2019 Spatial Data Science Symposium, “Setting the Spatial Data Science Agenda,” came to a close today in Santa Barbara, California…
New Editorial on GeoAI
Professor McKenzie and colleagues wrote an editorial on GeoAI for a special issue of the International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences. Click through to read a pre-print…
Presentation to the MTL Machine Learning Group
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.
New publication on predicting financial access in sub-Saharan Africa
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.
Identifying neighborhood names
In 2014, Google published a neighborhood map of Brooklyn, the most populous borough in New York City, a seemingly harmless step in providing its users with useful geographic boundary information. The backlash was swift.