Native Lands mapping platform
See https://native-land.ca/ for an interactive map of indigenous territories, treaties, and languages for North America and elsewhere.
Social Sciences
Coronovirus maps
For those of you that like to visualize world events through maps, here are two mapping visualizations of the coronavirus: Story map of the coronavirus spread by Esri’s StoryMaps team: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4fdc0d03d3a34aa485de1fb0d2650ee0 Dashboard map/data of realtime tracking of the coronavirus by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Special Issue on GIS and Health Published in Preventing Chronic Disease
The Impact of Geospatial Data on Chronic Disease: Understanding the role of place and space in shaping the geographic distributions of chronic disease is critical to informing appropriate public health responses for chronic disease prevention and treatment. This collection of 24 articles provides insight across three broad themes: 1) examining connections between community-level characteristics and population health, 2) … Read more
Wesleyan GIS Day – Monday November 11
Celebrate GIS Day on November 11! Join the celebration of geography, mapping, and spatial data analysis at the annual GIS Day on Monday, November 11, 2019. Many Wesleyan faculty, students, and staff apply geographic information system (GIS) technology to their geospatial data visualizations and analyses. Come learn what GIS is and what it can do … Read more
Hands-on Activities at Wesleyan GIS Day
Campus tree mapping Treasure hunt Geocaching Where are Wesleyan’s favorite bathrooms?
Moving to the new ArcGIS StoryMaps
Check out the useful guide about transitioning to the new StoryMaps platform.
Important: the next generation of Esri StoryMaps
The story map templates that we use will be discontinued in 2020. Check out esri’s websites (https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-storymaps/product-road-map) or attend the upcoming webinar (https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/5d2f7a456b9c17664bb0078b/meet-the-new-arcgis-storymaps/) to learn how the story maps platform is changing.
WesGIS Workshop: Easy-to-Do Spatial Data Analysis
Thursday, May 9, 10:00-11:00 am, PAC 100 Do you want to conduct analyses like drive-time buffers, hot spots, and density calculations but are intimidated by the Esri ArcMap software? Join Kim Diver for an introduction to conducting spatial analyses in ArcGIS Online, a user-friendly web map platform. This workshop for faculty and staff entails hands-on … Read more
Mapping TV: 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide
New York Times maps of the popularity of certain TV shows in the US.
Fall 2018 GIS Assistants announced
The Wesleyan GIS Assistant Program pairs a GIS-savvy undergraduate student with a Wesleyan faculty member to assist with GIS-related aspects of a course or a research project. This semester’s assistants include: Azher Jaweed ’19 History & Environmental Studies Jenny Aguilar ’19 Sociology with Data Analysis minor … Read more