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Aiddata Gis International Fellowship: Ghana West-Africa, Jason N. Ready Dec 2016

Aiddata Gis International Fellowship: Ghana West-Africa, Jason N. Ready

International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)

My internship, or fellowship as it was commonly referred to, was funded by a non-profit organization out of Williamsburg Virginia called AidData. This fellowship took place in in the country of Ghana, West-Africa beginning in May of 2016 and continued for 14 weeks with 40 hours each week. The objective of this internship was to provide in-depth training on the use of geographic Information Systems to Private and Public sectors within the country to allow for increased efficiency, and transparency through data visualization. In accordance with the requirement of Clark Universities GISDE master’s program this paper will delve into the …


Building And Safety Department Android Mobile Application, Nary Simms Jan 2016

Building And Safety Department Android Mobile Application, Nary Simms

Mathematics and Computer Science Capstones

Research has found that Americans spend 4.5 hours watching television, 1.5 hours listening to the radio, about half an hour reading print and spend a whooping five plus hours per day in digital media (online, mobile, other). Out of these five hours, two hours and twenty minutes are spent on a mobile device (phone or tablet), which is a massive increase of about 575 percent from the twenty-four minutes that was reported in 2010. Flurry, an analytic app company, released data about their tracking of more than 300,000 apps in 2013, and they found the average time spent per day …


Cleaning Up Minnesota's Archeological Record With Maid: The Minnesota Archeological Integrated Database, Andrew Allen Brown Jan 2016

Cleaning Up Minnesota's Archeological Record With Maid: The Minnesota Archeological Integrated Database, Andrew Allen Brown

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Minnesota archeologists face many difficulties in conducting archeological research and managing the state's cultural resources such as a lack of standardized data formats and field/lab procedures, a lack of a centralized data repository, and insufficient existing databases. The purpose of this thesis is to build the foundation for a database system that addresses these difficulties along with being efficient and effective for entering, managing, and analyzing archeological data produced in the field and in the lab. The Minnesota Archeological Integrated Database is being built to be a long-lasting, constantly evolving system to be used by archeologists and cultural resource managers …