Meeting Archives


2024


Data-Driven Population Health Surveillance

Presenter: Heidi Hanson, PhD – Senior Scientist – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Presentation Date: November 13, 2024

An Introduction to Shiny Web Applications in R

Presenter: Katherine Mistick, Research Assistant – School of Environment, Society & Sustainability – University of Utah
Presentation Date: October 16, 2024

Automation and collection of data

Presenter: Aaron Brown, MSGIS – Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining
Presentation Date: September 25, 2024

Processing and analyzing lidar data in R using lidR

Presenter: Dr. Mickey Campbell – School of Environment, Society & Sustainability – University of Utah
Presentation Date: September 11, 2024

Human-Environmental Interaction: Using crowdsourcing human and earth observation data to quantify tri-environments (social, built, and natural environments)

Presenter: Dr. Siqin Wang – Spatial Sciences Institute – University of Southern California
Presentation Date: March, 29, 2024

Lightning Talks

Presenters: Yvette Hastings – Montana State University; Mickey Campbell – University of Utah; Husile Bai – University of Utah
Presentation Date: March 15, 2024

2023


University of Utah Geographic Information Systems and Data Science Program

Presenter: Phoebe McNeally – U of U DIGIT Lab Director
Presentation date: Jan. 19, 2023

R Projects – Importance and Uses

Presenter: Blake Vernon – Postdoctoral Associate – Anthropology, University of Colorado
Presentation date: Feb. 2, 2023

Data Science/Analysis Careers

Presenter: Keith Savage – U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Indicators Division
Presentation date: Feb. 16, 2023

Sketching and Classifying Spatial Trajectories

Presenter: Jeff M. Phillips and Hasan Pourmahmood – U of U Computer Science
Presentation date: Mar. 16, 2023

Wildfire Rise Modeling for Electrical Grid Resilience

Presenter: Troy Saltiel – Geospatial Data Scientists – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Presentation date: Mar. 30, 2023

Predicting Asthma Prevalence Using Spatial Random Forest

Presenter: Dr. Aynaz Lotfata – University of California, Davis
Presentation date: Apr. 27, 2023

Kernel Smoothing for Spatial Point Data: Some Methods & Applications

Presenter: Dr. Tilman M. Davies – Department of Mathematics & Statistics – University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Presentation date: Nov. 13, 2023

Using Real Estate Advertisement Text and Mortgage Lending Data to Understand Urban Dynamics

Presenter: Elizabeth Delmelle – University of Pennsylvania – City & Regional Planning
Presentation date: Nov. 30, 2023

2022


Spatial Utah Data Science Kickoff Meeting

Presenter: Simon Brewer – U of U SUDS Faculty Mentor
Presentation date: Sept. 12, 2022

Spatial Machine Learning

Presenter: Simon Brewer – U of U SUDS Faculty Mentor
Presentation date: Sept. 26, 2022

Geostatistical Machine Learning – Random Forests

Presenter: Simon Brewer – U of U SUDS Faculty Mentor
Presentation date: Oct. 17, 2022

Modeling Visibility in a Wildfire Environment Using Airborne LiDAR and Machine Learning

Presenter: Mickey Campbell – U of U SUDS Faculty Mentor
Presentation date: Oct. 31, 2022

The Geography of Anti-Asian Hate on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Spatial and Temporal Analysis

Presenter: Alexander Hohl – U of U SUDS Faculty Mentor
Presentation date: Nov. 21, 2022