Lab provides e-scooter insight on CBC and CTV news
Professor Grant McKenzie discussed the impact of these scooters on a range of media outlets last week including CBC radio, print and CTV cable news.
Jump e-Bikes in Montreal
Last night, approximately 200 vehicles from Uber’s electric-assist bicycle-sharing service Jump, appeared on the streets of Montreal…
How do e-scooters differ from traditional bike-share?
We are in the midst of a technology-induced paradigm shift in transportation. Ride-hailing services, short-term car rentals, and autonomous vehicles are altering the transportation landscape.
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.
Platial at the Annual AAG Meeting in D.C.
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.
Montreal Building Footprints
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…
Scooter-pocalypse talk at UC Santa Barbara
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.
Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada Conference 2019
The 7th Conference on Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada (SKI-Canada) just wrapped up in beautiful Banff, Alberta.
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.