Opening a Legacy of Data

For the 2024 SURF Research Day I presented a Pecha Kucha on a project to recover data off of legacy data formats, I recorded the presentation and uploaded to...
Making My Own Stamen Watercolor

Making My Own Stamen Watercolor

Every year I make a wildlife photo book for my close friends and family highlighting my best wildlife photos of the previous year. I make the book in ArcGIS Pro using two sets of data driven pages, maps and photo pages. The map pages show the viewer where each photo...
Raspberry Pi 4 GIS Cluster

Raspberry Pi 4 GIS Cluster

I have been getting excited with the recent developments in the Raspberry Pi realm, the ARM processor ecosystem, and the magic of containerization, particularly from the Ansible and Kubernetes developer Jeff Geerling. He has had several video series on building and...

Certification Earned: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

I passed Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Cloud Practitioner exam on January 6, 2021, it is valid for 3 years with an expiration of January 6 2024. This is my first AWS exam, and I plan on taking the Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam next in a few...

Learning R with GTA V

Introduction  In Grand Theft Auto V you can rob convenience stores, gas stations, and liquor stores by either holding the clerk up or murdering the clerk and taking the money out of the register yourself. Usually when performing a robbery, I would just murder the...