Veerjee Week 1

Hello! My name is Aiden Veerjee, I am a Junior and I come from Johnstown Ohio. My major is in Quantitative Economics and I have a minor in Geography. I am in Alpha Sigma Phi, I am in the Economics & Business student board, and I am the Comptroller for WCSA (Student Government), I am also the President for our school’s Investment Club.

My account:

  1. After looking around, I forgot that I made a StoryMap for Geog291, I thought it was cool to revisit it after a while.
  2. I also think it’s cool that the website itself had courses to make people more proficient at using it.

What Is ArcGIS Online?

  1. I do think it is very useful to be able to access ArcGIS Online both through computers and phones. I would like to see some of the applications of being able to utilize ArcGIS via a mobile device.
  2. And it seems like that the principles and fundamentals that we have learned in 291 are going to be at a much greater use when bringing stuff we can make more easily into a fully fledged webpage.

ArcGIS Online Basics:

  1. Creating apps seems like an important & useful function that I will be learning a lot more about during this course.
  2. Keeping things visible and easier to understand seems like a key concept that I should keep in mind for this course as well.
  3. There are plenty of online resources that I am able to use.

GIS Applications:

  1. I had looked up ‘ArcOnline crowdsourcing’ in google scholar and found an article about how someone used ArcGIS Online to compare crowdsourcing to natural resource management. I found this application pretty interesting, especially with one of the points they had brought up with giving people to report an invasive aquatic fern via GIS applications.
  2. And as the election is drawing near, I wanted to take a look and see if there were a lot of electoral uses of ArcOnline, and sure enough there were quite a few.

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