By Hannah Dillahunt ’21 At the beginning of last fall, I started working with the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) to create an interactive map for Smithies and visitors to campus to use to explore Smith’s large collection of…
Finding Trees for the Forest
On a crispy Monday morning in mid September, the Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) team set out with Albert Kim (SDS), Stephaine Choi (CEEDs), and Olivia Handoko (SDS ‘21) to measure and collect data for our very own, home grown “perfect…
Crowdsource Mapping Workshop Series
Q&A COVID-19 related mapping resources Designing & Collecting Data with Survey123 4/16 Thursday 4:00-5:00 Tutorial & Recording First of a 4 part series on designing surveys to capture and share crowdsourced map data. The Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) will guide…
Virtual Geo during COVID-19
What a whirlwind of weeks it’s been— since the college moved to remote learning in mid-March, the Spatial Analysis Lab has worked hard to make sure we can still offer our mapping instruction. We’ve teamed up with our friends across…
Finding Holiday Cheer
Share your holiday adventures and live vicariously through the rest of the Smith community! Click on the image below or here to participate. A glimpse of Holiday Locations from last year A map from Holidays past (the 2015-2016 Snowflake Map…
Where is Everybody? Campus Directory Mapping
By Kalynn Kosyka, Computer Science & Data Science ’19 Currently, Smith College is going through major renovations which resulted in many staff members being relocated. The Campus Directory Map will allow the user to query on name, department, and/or person…
Fourth Annual Tofurkey Map
Are you flying across the world for Thanksgiving break? Or maybe you’re not planning to leave your dorm for five days? In either case, we hope that you’ll contribute to this year’s Tofurkey 2017 Map, a tradition started by former Post-Bac Fellow…
Diversity on Diversity
Although embedded deeply within the Sciences at Smith, the Spatial Analysis Lab routinely crosses boundaries to work in other domains. One recurring theme is mapping justice and the typical focus is environmental justice given our grounding. But more recently our…
Learning from the Favorite Places Project
By Karen Yu ’16 One of the older projects that we have worked on at the SAL is the Favorite Places Map on our website. The goal of this project was to see where students, alums, and others saw as…
Collaboration with the Art Museum!
by Karen Yu, Spatial Analysis Lab Assistant Despite its physical appearance, the Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) is more than just a computer lab in Sabin Reed. Behind the scenes, we’re often busy with new projects, teaching, and always thinking spatially.…